STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2036, sig. 109-7/43

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English Translation

91 great and solemn moments in which, in the name of our people, we convey with deep admiration the most sincere congratulations for the only heroic deeds of the German soldiers, we can rightly become aware that the Czech people, together with all their sons and daughters, feel the same way that the President of the Republic expressed in his congratulations, as well as the government of the Protectorate in the rally for all of us, which is the chairman of the Ing government. Eliáš performed on the radio on the 25th d.M. The rich and imperishable results of the centuries of living together and the mutual influence of the Czech and German Volkes on each other, the centuries-long alliance with the Reich, the common cultural and economic development once gave us and also today give us the right and the opportunity to live through the great historical moments with the German people just as joyfully. The true fidelity to the Reicl only a short time of the new state-law figures and factual cooperation in all areas and public life to the expression of comecian workers, peasants, traders has again proved in the final stage of today's already decided struggle that dzgg is his leader of the sober sense of our people, foresight, judgment, giving, and his goal the smooth coexistence with the German fellow citizens in trust of a happy future. We want in this spirit the Czech Volkische factor to be asserted in the life of the Empire, and we want to