STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1928, sig. 109-6/20

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4. Planning On my proposal, the Sportgau was entrusted with the implementation of the German Fencing Championships in Prague from 24.-26.8.1944. In the autumn, I intend to hold a larger conference and rally of the Sport Gaue, which is to be connected with a Reinhard-Heydrich-Memory Run. I want to emphasize with particular emphasis the educational and political character of the physical exercises. Result Also those parts of the Sportgaue Bohemia and Moravia, which tended to think that their earlier ties to other Sportgauen / Sudetenland, Niederdonau/ were more fertile, are now the production of the Ueb, that in own Sportgau Bohemia and Mähren a more successful development is possible. I myself am firmly convinced that the Sportgau Bohemia and Moravia is quite viable and is a necessity in political terms. It certainly needs a sportive approach to the neighbouring gaue, but is alive and strong enough to make fruitful and successful work with its own strength. ymm 24.7.44