STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2736, sig. 109-14/39

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English Translation

This is why our victory leads to the final elimination of the European troublemakers and, therefore, to a new permanent order and real peace for Europe. In this realization, there is only one task for Bohemia and Moravia in the presence of the war: the development and exploitation of the rich human and economic forces to the extreme for the German victory, that is, the highest work performance in all areas. This principle and this task are fulfilled under strong German leadership. He who works for the kingdom - and this does the overwhelming part of the population - has nothing to fear; his basis of life and future is secured. He who stands aside, pushes himself or sabotages himself, stands in the camp of the enemies and is fallen according to martial law. Just as ruthlessly as the coward on the pront, the traitor in the homeland is niled. We have proved this and will only become stronger in the future. The chief representative of this principle was Reinhard Heydrich. If Heydric fell by cowardly hands and the enemies cheered about it, this is no proof of a czechienhe program on which the future of this people could be built, let alone a victory. But the assassination could well be a milestone in the development of Bohemia and Moravia and a memorial to the future of the Czech people. For us, the life of this man is an example and his death is an eternal obligation. For the Czechs, who will only later know what life was lost here, life, deeds and death can be Reinhard Heydrich's warning for reflection and conversion. One thing's for sure, the assassination continues.