PAMPHLET OFFICE RELEASE NO. 126 U N IVEF^SiTY MARCH 30, 1942 OF T NEWS FLASHES FROM UNDER NAZI DOMINATION JUL 20 1942 (The news which is coining through in spite of Nazi censorship!) L -WITCH HUNTING FOR MASONS NAZIS EXECUTING PRISONERS OF WAR The Czechoslovak Government in London The Nazi writers were very busy last winter trying charged the Nazi authorities in occupied Czecho• to convert the Czechs to Hitler's New Order. Several slovakia with a flagrant violation of international books dealing with the Czech problem were pub• law by executing a prisoner of war. According to lished in the Czech and the German languages. The this accusation, made February 27, a special tribunal latest Nazi contribution to the ideological front in set up by Nazi Commissioner Reinhard Heydrich, in the "Protectorate" is the book "Golem, Scourge of Prague, last October, had sentenced to death Eugene the Czechs." by Walter Jacobi. The N e u e Tag, Cerny, formerly of the Anglo-Czechoslovak Bank in the official Nazi paper in Prague, in an article pub• Belgrade. Cerny, a Czechoslovak by descent but a lished December 23, asserts that this book was in• naturalized Yugoslav, joined the Yugoslav army tended to reveal to the Czechs the manner in which during the mobilization and was captured by the they were sacrificed to a Jewish Free Masonic con• Germans. Brought to Prague he was executed on spiracy under the pretext of achieving national in• the pretext that, before the war, he had acted as dependence. liaison officer between the Yugoslav High Command and Czechoslovak underground organizations. Quoting professor Kapras's book, published in I 928 about the Czech resistance at home during the first World War, Jakobi declares that the idea of the CZECH POETS IN NAZI Czech "Maffia," part of the Free Mason movement, CONCENTRATION CAMP was conceived during the war, but was carried out Czechoslovak circles in London received a report after the revolution of 1918, although some leading recently from Prague that two of the most popular Czechs had already been Free Masons before the of the younger Czech poets, Jaroslav S e i f e r t war, as, for example, M a s a r y k and probably and Vitezslav N e z v a 1 , were arrested by the also T y r s , the founder of the Sokol Movement. Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. Jacobi further asserts that the leaders of the Sokol Nazi "cultural guards" discovered, moreover, a in the pre-Munich days were all Free Masons: number of older books considered to be inimmical Scheiner, Bukovsky, Truhlaf, to the interests of the German Reich. Consequently CO Vanicek, Klinger, and P e c h 1 a t , the books were confiscated and banned from the (Augustin Pechlat was executed by the Gestapo public libraries. One of those books is the novel, during the Heydrich reign of terror). "Pan sveta" ("Master of the World"), by Emil The Junak Scout movement, says Jacobi, was also Vachek, written in the early twenties and predicting conducted under Free Masonic influence. While the coming of a dictator in Germany. T. G. Masaryk was a Free Mason without apron, Rasin, Samal (Chancellor of the Re• PURGE THE CZECH NATIONAL COUNCIL public, tortured to death in Moabit prison in Berlin, The Czech National Council in Prague (before 1941), S c h e i n e r , Prof. Nemec, Ma- the dismemberment of the Republic called Czecho• char, Benes, Krofta, Jan Masa• slovak National Council) a cultural organization ryk, and S 1 a V i k were high-ranking Free promoting the unity of the Czechoslovak people, Masons. incurred the wrath and the hatred of the Nazis, who While the leaders of the Free Masons have fled charge it with deliberate passive resistance against the country or have withdrawn from public life, the New Order. In a purge ordered recently by the others, says Jacobi, try to change their colors, con• Nazi authorities, Dr. Jan Kapras, its chairman, was tinuing their machinations in disguise. But this will replaced by prof. Drachovsky, who is regarded as not help them, for accounts with them will be settled. being pro-Nazi. But very soon the Fascist paper V 1 a j k a complained that, although Kapras was All the Czech newspapers, controlled by the eliminated from the Council, his picture still hangs Nazis, were obliged to print a review of this book, on the wall in the office of the Council, and that the eulogizing it as a literary masterpiece. "old regime' continues under a new head. NEWS FLASHES FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA UNDER NAZI DOMINATION

MESSAGE OF CZECHOSLOVAK lion cars yearly—tanks, guns, and other war ma• terials are rolling off the production lines in vast MINISTER TO HIS COUNTRYMEN quantities. The production of 60,000 planes this On March 15, the third anniversary of the year and 125,000 next year; 45,000 tanks this occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis, year and 75,000 next year, will be realized. Hun• Col. V. S. Hurban, Czechoslovak Minister in dreds of thousands of aviators will soon be ready to Washington, spoke to the people of Czecho• strike mortal blows against the enemy. slovakia over the short-wave broadcast as The productive capacity of the United States will follows: further increase and an avalanche of arms, brave soldiers and steadfast hearts will finally crush the Again 1 speak to you from Washington. March I 5 enemy. has come once more, the anniversary of the greatest tragedy that ever befell the Czechs and Slovaks. You know well what difficulties must be overcome I recall those days, just as you do, with feelings of by the Germans if they wish to keep up their pro• sacred rage and with the determination that what duction of war materials. The slow down efforts was lost must be recovered. We can accomplish this which we require from you are important and in the if we sacrifice everything to attain one aim: to de• future will play an even more important role. feat and to drive out all the Germans and the Remember the axis can still win battles but the traitors who dishonored our native land. war will be won only by the United Nations. We are aware that this is a difficult task and we plan our fight accordingly. We will have to endure Therefore, the anniversary of the occupation of much suffering, but we are prepared for it. We are our homeland must fill your hearts with sacred rage strengthened in the faith that our struggle will not and must confirm your conviction that our day of be in vain. reckoning will come and our country will be free once again. As you all know, the United Nations, who pledged themselves on January 1 of this year, to carry on the fight until the Nazis and their allies are defeated completely, are passing through a difficult period at TWELVE CZECH PRESS MARTYRS the present time. The well planned cunning and strategy, the ruthlessness and the infamy of the In the annual meeting of the Syndicate of Czecho• enemy are responsible for our serious losses. Today slovak Journalists, in London, a resolution was only the Russians are driving back the Germans and adopted to regard as martyrs for the freedom of the are winning the admiration of the whole world. On Czech Press the eleven journalists who were shot by the other fronts—except for aerial attacks on Ger• Heydrich's Prague Summary Courts and Josef many and unoccupied France, we are on the de• Skalda who was beheaded by the Berlin German fensive. Nevertheless, regardless of heavy losses People's Court. The Syndicate has taken upon itself especially in the Far East, the United Nations ceased the task of perpetuating their memory in the re- to concentrate on the defensive. They are now pre• liberated homeland. paring the offensive. It is an old rule, that the best defensive is to be on the offensive. Before Munich and even quite recently, some of the countries who now comprise the United Nations, could not realize that Hitler and the entire German nation take IDES OF MARCH EXHIBIT seriously the words of their national anthem: The Czechoslovak "Ides of March" exhibit "Deutschland iiber alles in der Welt." As a result opened on March 16 in London. Photographs they were unprepared. The United States was also and diagrams exhibited show how all parts of unprepared for the treacherous attack of the the Czechoslovak Republic were in harmonious Japanese. From now on, however, the story will be relation with one another. The consequences of different. The attacks of the Germans and of the Munich decrees are also illustrated and show Japanese will be met by counter attacks. how the railway system and economic life of Here in the United States the physical and moral the Republic was hopelessly crippled so that strength of 1 30 million people is today concentrated the Ides of March occupation of the country by on one thing: the defeat of all the enemies of man• Germany was a logical conclusion of Munich kind and humanity. This means that millions of sol• events. Greatly admired was a life size effigy diers are trained for the decisive battle and tens of of Hitler perched on top of a ladder with a millions of workers are turning out guns, airplanes, brush and paint-box above the legend "What a and ships. The entire production of automobiles for pity he was allowed to get off the ladder." civilian use has been discontinued. In place of 5 mil• NEWS FLASHES FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA UNDER NAZI DOMINATION

SABOTAGE BY of Czechoslovakia knew all about his arrival. To his discomfort they also were told in detail of his be• CZECH RAILWAYMEN haviour in his sleeping-car and in whose company he had traveled. Jifi Hronek, in "Volcano Under Hitler," just pub• lished in London, writes: "These railwaymen have had many opportunities of taking an active part in the national struggle, by "The methods of fighting being used today by the means of both passive resistance and definite sabo• subjugated nations of Europe can be classified under tage. Passive resistance has come to be carried out the following headings: mass demonstrations, indi• with such blind obedience in complying with as to vidual terrorism, passive and active resistance, and be obstructive. For a long time this was a favorite sabotage. Only the two last named methods have method employed by the workers in their struggle to any real chance of being successful . . . secure better conditions. On most of the railways "Mass demonstrations in the way of street fighting old regulations are still in force and can still be are today useless because they present the strongly legally applied with disastrous results . . . armed enemy with a welcome opportunity to re• "Since March, 1939, more accidents have occurred taliate with the utmost brutality. The same is true of on Czechoslovak railways than happened during the acts of individual terrorism . . . whole preceding twenty years of the Republic's ad• "It is relatively unimportant to the continued ex• ministration. istence of the Nazi regime whether a German of• "The greatest number of accidents was noted ficial or soldier is killed. To some extent deeds rouse when the German Army was marching east for new the oppressed nation, but that is about all. conquests, or when troops were being transported "Passive resistance and sabotage are quite dif• from east to west . . . ferent methods. Even in the use of these two methods "Bridges were damaged; rails were torn up; and of warfare it is necessary to keep abreast of the times military trains had to stand for hours on sidings or and to adapt the technique of fighting to the given open lines outside the stations. Telephones ceased situation. It is a fact, however, that today sabotage to function whenever military orders had to be sent, is being carried on in Europe on an enormous and and food supplies for the Army were held up all unprecedented scale. over and for "unaccountable "From the beginning the Germans showed the reasons." In some instances, railway warehouses con• greatest interest in the 'Protectorate's' considerable taining Army food supplies were actually blown network of railways because they form the most up . . . important link in the transport route from the Reich "Sometimes a rail broke just before a military to the East, to the Balkans, to , and to Russia. train passed over it. Sometimes a traffic signal was "An equally intense interest—but for very dif• blocked. At other times the cause, as well as the ferent purposes—has been taken in the railways result, of an accident was more serious, as, for ex• which now serve Germany's war effort by the Czech ample, that of the disaster which occurred near the railway men. The . . . hitherto peaceful "blue army " station of Josefova Hut' on the Pilsen-Cheb line. became a militant force." Above the track was a steep cliff; but, while the rail• With the help extended to them by railwaymen way was under the administration of the Czechs, the hundreds of Czechs, in danger because of their po• linesmen guarded against landslides by continually litical activities or because of their eagerness to join making tests. One day, however, the cliff crashed the free Czechoslovak forces, have succeeded in down upon the tracks a few minutes before a mili• escaping abroad. "The railwayman is, to a certain tary transport passed through. Scores of German extent, in possession of information of military im• soldiers were killed on the spot, while others were portance, for he knows some time in advance about so severely wounded that they had to be taken to any contemplated changes to be made in the time• a hospital, where many of them died later. During tables. This knowledge makes it possible for him to this same occurrence a large quantity of military impart this valuable and timely information to those material was destroyed. interested in the secret activities of the so-called "Indeed, it would require an S.S. or S.A. man to 'underground movement.' watch every Czech railwayman ... In the 'Protector• "The railwaymen are able to ascertain the move• ate' every employee is interested in causing trans• ments of important personages of the Nazi Party portation to be as slow, inefficient, and unreliable in so far as they travel by train. Thus it happened as possible. Railways which are never to be de• that, when the German Minister of Propaganda, pended upon are a good weapon in the struggle Dr. Goebbels paid a secret visit to Prague, the whole against Hitler." NEWS FLASHES FROM CZECHOSLOVAiOA UNDER NAZI DOMINATION

CZECHS FLY BLACK FLAGS NAZI CRIMES IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA GROWING ON NAZI INVASION DAY According to the Rome radio, two persons, names Recent reports from occupied Czechoslovakia dis• not given, were sentenced by the Prague Special close that several hundred persons in Prague were Court for sabotage and were executed. It has also arrested Sunday, March 15, by the Germans for been confirmed that Bfetislav Vystyd, 41, Rudolf flying black flags as a sign of mourning on the Lustig, 29, Petr Herman, 20, and Leo Steiner, 29, third anniversary of the Nazi entry into the city. were executed in Prague on February 24. Advices reaching the Czechoslovak Government in London said that March 15 was observed throughout the so-called Protectorate as a day of CURFEW FOR "PROTECTORATE'S" sorrow. In several districts of Prague black flags JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS were raised. These were torn down by troopers of Pupils of Junior High Schools in the "Protector• the Nazi Elite Guard (S.S.) who arrested all oc• ate" now have a ten o'clock curfew. This new decree cupants where flags were shown. was signed by the Minister of Education when it was Contrary to their custom in the last two years, found that pupils were busily engaged in writing and the Germans did not flaunt their victory in the faces posting anti-Nazi slogans after dark. Pupils are now of the conquered Czechoslovaks by military parades allowed to visit public places when accompanied by and German band concerts, indicating hesitation by their parents. Instructions as to how they should the occupation authorities to provoke the increas• dress have also recently been issued. ingly restive public. Most Czechoslovaks stayed in• doors, where many secret patriotic observances were NAZI LABOR FRONT IN held, it was reported. CZECHOSLOVAKIA PATTERN FOR NORWAY The News from Norway reports that the Quisling government will soon issue a decree by NAZI TROOPS IN LIBYA which the Fuehrer principle will replace the demo• IN OLD CZECHOSLOVAK UNIFORMS cratic processes which have been traditional in Nor• German soldiers taken prisoners in Libya have wegian labor unions. The existing trade unions are been found wearing coats of the former Czechoslo• to be dissolved, and a board of commissars is to re• vak Army, it was revealed here today in Czecho• place the National Labor organization. This board slovak circles. will appoint district commissars, and all workers will automatically become members of the new One Big The German military authorities, it was said, had Union ruled by Quisling, who enforces the orders not even bothered to tear the Czech labels off the which he receives from Berlin. In Czechoslovakia garments. this system of labor organization already has been introduced by the Nazis. Evidently it is the pattern to be followed in every country subjugated by the GOERING, THE GREAT HUNTER Nazis. " -i-j.^j^i im,,-,..: Herrmann Goering, it is said, is the greatest hunter in Germany. He hunts for medals. He CZECHOSLOVAK LEAGUE hunts for uniforms. He hunts wild boars in OF NATIONS UNION RENEWED Poland, bears in the Carpathian Mountains, and Czechoslovak League of Nations Union was re• the Politisch Verdaechtige (politically unreli• newed in London on February 11. It has several able) in Moabit (a notorious jail in Berlin). He corresponding members in the United States. Prior is so fond of hunting that he will even join to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia it was a the Russians in hunting out and hunting down very influential unit of supporters of the idea of inter• Adolph Hitler. national co-operation and collective security in Central Europe.

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