STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2468, sig. 109-12/115

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31st August 1940 Meeting of the Hi-section XxxIX in Moravia - Östrau. - v Pg. Wilhelm P l e y e r , Aitpaulsdorf, near Reichenberg. Dear party comrade Pleyer! The section Xxxix is held on 2nd September in the Stadt-theater zu Mähr,-Ostrau a celebration of the Pührerkorps of the protectorate. I ask you to participate in the organization of this celebration. The pee sequence is intended for example: Music for the opening Parole edition and memory of heroes Music for memory of the hero and conveying to the following solemn lecture: The legacy of the Ancestors Music may all become unfaithful H-Lied Mfenn ..." The tasks of the i in the Protectorate (Rede) Führergruss, Horst Wessel- und Deutschlandlied. My wish is that you, as a legacy of the ancestors, give a poetic view of the history of Bohemia and Moravia in relation to the German Reich, in which the devout epochs are lit up and the historical conflicts between German and Czech folklore are clearly and sharply drawn. The contradictions of the people, the race, the adultery and the ideals have to come out brightly. The geopolitical significance of the Bohemian-Nährisçhen space for the German Reich, read in history and finally the decisive value of the peasantry in the sense of the Monmese word: "What the war wins, the war can escape again, but not the conquest which the plougher makes; if the Romans lost many battles, but kaun ever at peace Roman ground