STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2551, sig. 109-12/198

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Ansere Bane Werkzeitschrift der Betriebsgemeinschaft Bähm. Escompte-Bank, Prague Prague, January 1941 Year 1 / Episode 1 Workmates and comrades! 31162 I greet you, my workmates, in the first number of unferer Werkzeitung. This is why we have created in unferer Betriebszeitung a new tool for the Community, a tool which we want to use in the spirit of national society. It is all our newspaper and I ask you all to be not only faithful Lefer, but also faithful co-workers and who come from among us - to guide the written administration of your well-considered nuisances and contributions. In addition, our newspaper will serve as a mouthpiece for all the grenades and custodians that must be brought ever more closely to us by the ideas of National Soialism and that follow our gaze and our worldview. After all, a business newspaper must also take advantage of our professional knowledge and our skills and examine our position as bankers within the famten German economy. Gine's important task will also be fulfilled by bringing the headquarters and branches closer to each other in human terms. We all took anteit on the lives of our professional comrades in Prague and outside, and came to Dresdner Bank and the friendly banks of our large group in ever-savvy perfederal contact. Also in this respect we want to feel as a member of the great community, to which we belong since the creation of the Great German Empire. In Diefer's first mums of our work magazine, we also want to pay tribute to all the poor comrades who, in faithful fulfilment of their duties as soldiers or workmen, fill their service to the Fatherland far away from us. We feel strongly attached to them and are happy to welcome them back to unferen Keihen after the victory. The time of the show gives me the opportunity to wish all of you a happy new year on behalf of the entire board and to express to all of us a warm wish that this year will bring the victorious crowning of his struggle for Germany's external freedom to our beloved leader.