English Translation

The Japanese journalists soon found out that the Czech youth leaders in the board of trustees would be particularly keen to move in, and incited them again and again through sharp statements, why they were excluded from military service, etc. In the cultural sector, the scope of Czech literature and journalism was particularly interesting. A similar exhibition in the rooms of the Czech Ministry of Education was very popular. It was particularly impressed that Czech language textbooks were still printed in recent times. A visit to the Orbis publishing house did not miss its impression either. In the economic field, the question of the participation of German capital in the production in Bohemia and Moravia was particularly interested. On the German side, the answer to these questions was mainly with the reference to the Bata-Konzern, which represents a Czech family property. The visit to the Bata plant in Zlin also gave the foreign journalist the impression of a kind of production which was considered to be of Czech character. Furthermore, the scope of the use of Czech workers in the Reich region, questions of wage alignment, price level as well as the Schleichhandel were particularly interested. On the latter question, the foreign journalists found quite uniformly that the black market in the Protectorate had a far smaller extent than in the Nellen side, according to the impressions they expressed, almost only interested in Obergruppenführer Heydrich and Obergruppenkührer Frank. As for Obergruppenführer Heydrich, it was repeatedly asked whether he had actually succeeded in pacifying the Czech workers in a social way. As for the person of ObergrupperführER Frank, the main reasons for this azs being so hated on the enemy side were asked. Very conspicuous in general was a sustainable interest for the Schutzstaffel. In discussions with various journalists it was noted that this was due to the demarcation of weapons dk, general 4, security police and