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38 Landesdienst Sudetengau. Episode 154 Sheet A 28.June 1939. _V_o_r_v_e_r/s_a_n_d___ Attention! Blockmark! BRRSEEEPERSEEEEEERES Subsequent speech by Gaulei ter and Reichsstatthalter Konrad H e n l e i n, which will be held on 29 June 1939 at the Grand Rally of the Prague Germandom in the exhibition halls, should only be published together with the framework report. For centuries, a legal claim has been fulfilled. IEEEEEEEAEEEESE3EEEEEEE3 Gauleiter Konrad Henlein on his first official visit to the capital of the_protectorate. ----- - Reichsstatthalter und Gauleiter Konrad H e n 1 e i n führte in his big speech before the Prague Germantum, among others: "It is a proud and happy feeling for me that I can never speak to my old combatants as free German to free Germans in Prague. A fact that is equally valid for both Germans and Czechs: that a long-standing legal claim, which we Germans represent and whose fulfilment we have fought and bled, has finally found its fulfillment. Bohemia and Moravia, formerly the countries of the Reich, have found their natural relations with the German area.That this condition is a final one,for which the greatness and power of the Great German Empire guarantees us. As great as the feeling of our joy may be, we don't want to forget the task that is posed by the new situation, for both parts, for Germans and Czechs it's about: the inner relationship of the two nations to each other is also due to the natural form that has been achieved outwardly. We douchs are ready to do this. However, a significant part of the responsibility for shaping the future falls to the Czech nation, of which we are waiting for it to reflect on the life laws of its existence in central Europe and to correct views which, so far, could be its fate and, in the future, its fate if the change we want does not take place. One thing is foreshadowed: we Germans consider the state of today, if it concerns the external order in the relations between Bohemia and Moravia and the Empire, as final and unchangeable. With all due respect for the Czech people and with all readiness to help secure the own life of the Czech People, we will never again allow Bohemia and Moravia, or even the settlement area of the Bohemian people, to be misplaced for a planned threat to the German living rights or for the enforcement of power-political intentions of certain imperialist great powers. The question of shaping the future is: it is about finding the best and most fruitful forms of a friendly and respectful coexistence of the two nations. Every thought of total violence and cynical arbitrariness towards the Czech people lies far from us." Br/Br continuation on sheet B $b6/3 X1 43f ml