A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2540, sig. 109-12/187

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4.9 a - lo - cover: What belongs to the most recent history today must be repeatedly pointed out to our children and children's children tomorrow and in all the future for warning, so that they never forget the time when the Sudeten Germans lived in a single large dungeon. This twenty-year history of suffering of the Sudeten Germans, which was only ended by the liberating act of the Führer, should be my task today. Picture 2 On October 7th of the year l9l8 Emperor Charles I issued a manifesto in vain, in which he called the nation to cooperate in the unshaping of his empire into a state to save his house power. Socialists' marches, local unrest in Bohemia and Moravia, and large-scale strikes by Czech railwaymen, who had already refused to direct food and coal trains to Vienna and the German border areas, were the foundations of the Morian monarchy. In this great decision-making hour of old Austria announced on 28 October l9l8, i.e. one day after the imperial decree of Prof. Masaryk in Philadelphia the foundation of the Czechoslovak state. Picture 3 : His decomposition work and lying propaganda as well as that of his friend Dr.Eduard Benesch abroad, had been worthwhile.