STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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-82- wanted to make up for the damage caused by the closure of the Czech universities and schools. Even this activity did not exceed the framework of paper protests. However, the national community did not develop at all any political. In spite of its mere existence, the Germans were irritated by the Natlonal Community, not actively opposed to the German violence, but, like all other sectors of Czech life, did only what it was forced to do and passively opposed all attempts at "co-operation" to which they called for the Germans, against their will and without their endeavours, it became a symbol of Czech national individuality, and that was their crime in the eyes of the German regime. The regime therefore raised against them a different movement, the so-called Vlajka, a union of the scum of the big cities and individuals, whose criminal records were pure only in Ausnabms.Although this group was supported by the Germans materially and politically, it remained completely isolated in Czech life and neither by terror nor by production it succeeded in gaining a greater number of followers of cder influence in the country, moreover its press, boycotted by the Czech public, had to return several times to absolute lack of readers. With the support of the German Rizei and the German army, the Vlajka began to carry out terrorist attacks against the National Community, raiding its functionaries and sites and threatening all those who, in their position, had to defend themselves against the Community.