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bv - 3 - of the Czech population and spoke only Polish to it. The Czech population showed a great deal of sympathy to them and even administered denatured alcohol as a drinking brandy in one case (as verified by the Stapo). The Countess Zirotin in Blauda complained to the officers who lived in her house about the stubbornness of the head of the office towards the Czechs and expected the corresponding intervention of these gentlemen. While the members of the soldiers often lived with Czechs and made plenty of hamster trips, whole troops of Czech girls came from the nearby villages to visit the German soldiers. After the soldiers did not impose any restraints on the reports of misdemeanours in the Wehrmacht, the war administrative inspectors and even the officers very badly judged against the German population, it is to be feared that*w they have also shown a similarly unskillful behaviour towards the Czechs." 4.) Statement on the appointment of the new Reich Protector and on the sheepmeat of the State Ministry. According to consistent reports, the Czechs do not see any significant change in the appointment of the new Reichsprotector, as Karl Hermann Frank as Minister of State also offers a guarantee of compliance with the previous course. In Leitmeritz, Czechs, for example, said: "Frank is the man who rattles with the sabre and Frick is the good father, but both are swastikas and that's enough." In Gablonz, positive Czechs were of the opinion that Frick as a man who comes from the administration will certainly have more understanding, áls so far the i. According to a report from Troppau, Czechs rejected any debate about the new regulation and noted that Frick would be on the "representation post" while the exercise of the force would be in the hands of the police. Only the establishment of a state ministry, as well as the equal appointment of Himmler as Reich Minister of the Interior, clearly demonstrated this. In the opinion on the German Minister of State, there is often a certain degree of uncertainty, since the Czechs cannot guess the causes, not the consequences of this new regulation. in Aussig czech workers: olot " Why this change, it is all quiet, we did nothing after all?n, In Leitmeritz Czechs were of the opinion that through the appointments a time of "state" was created for the Czech people. While the moderate circles immediately a great confidence to K.H. Frank shows, one laughs in the circles of the Benesh followers about the events and expresses itself: "Everything is futile, Germany has just lost the war and so all political spins do not help anything!" Since the appointment stands in contradiction to the establishment of an autonomous Czech government spread by the whisper propaganda, one tried occasionally to clarify the connections by the following rumor: b.w.