STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2685, sig. 109-12/333

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Walter Rathenau, who raised the coming development Beneš, Hus and Komenský, even as a means of understanding, having suffered through the oppressed, harassed people and trying to create extra- human work, once said, cruelty to the Minoritä- also to the youth: I say it, there will be times, regardless of whether the Germans, Hungary, Poland, who will not speak differently about our worries, needs, small things, joys, Jews, Protestants or Baptists, will speak through and bad things. as we are of cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood- It is certainly understandable that the Jews do not shame, fetishism, witchcraft, inquisition, torture. Let us look at the joy and shouting, but let us understand the problems to which the Czech people, in particular, unfortunately do not have a core, we strongly demand the implementation of the ground and yet it preserves complete peace and understanding and the action of satisfaction which impels the whole civilized world in the spirit of the coexistence of the peoples. State, in order to jointly increase the development of the Àn to the Jews of the Republic, it is necessary to do everything possible to bring about culture and the safeguarding of human dignity no inconsistency, whereby even the formed. Roman Wirkner. least excitement could arise. It is enough for a fire of anti-Semitism E S IS WITHOUT ZWEIFEL that the whole world is to ignite. but we in the Czechoslovaki Shrek- We particularly ascribe to the Prague Jews, living through kenstage. However, since no porridge is so hot publicly not to speak German, resp. German is eaten as cooked, gradually comes to speak the not I a u t. Who can Czech, speak calming, and the cold mind analyses the Czech, who can not, speak in the electric events with more or less confidence. trian, in the cafe etc. not so loud that one hears it some We do not want our readers with statements meters far. And, for God's sake, one does not mix a sentence of a Prago-Jewish style with the Czechoslovaks, and why Czechslovakia with another Czech. Even the biggest Radau-Austria cannot be compared, bore, because it does not stir up the German so, if he knows, this is enough from its daily newspapers to learn that one does not master the state language. However, he has noticed that one can Czech so far, around itself "The fear has big eyes", says a proverb. with the conductor, the waiter in this language too Many people take their daily newspaper trembling in communication, and yet he speaks German, he is the hand, fearing that they, as it was unfortunately in the last. Time was often the case, unpleasant news from more and more readers will certainly give us the testimony. Then one or more 'can't say that we are not chauvinists and dorks' days, until the last news is again overtaken by all forces, both against the German of a new, more or less pleasant newspaper as well as against Czech hurrah patriotism. Only a few people are struggling and we believe that by doing so, we have given the legitimization to have rest to such warning, even in the most difficult circumstances of life. Such people are truly to be envied. The really German Jews have no doubt But there are not only single but entire layers, yes, happy natural possession Not only during the le but already much earlier, let: hourly speech of Hitler, let not bring the public out of their own. No depression, k every citizen has not only trust, but trust and confidence in the President, his pre-circuits, which have become a refuge. Life in the ordinary image, in cafes and debates, no excitement