THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2761, sig. 109-15/6

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→ 2 but no one protects the Slovaks.At that time none of the members of the party turned, even President Dr.Tiso did not oppose these anti-German sentiments, they sanctioned the party forum.So if now these ministers and deputies give German-friendly speeches in the context of the political schools of the Hlinka party, this is nothing but political necessity. has declared in one of his speeches that the Slovak-German friendship is not an issue of the hearts, but the Hlinka party has always had the best of the people in mind and even now Slovak politics is dictated by those circumstances that provide the best for the nation. It is always stressed that this war will end with the victory of the Slovak nation as well.This exclusion allows for a double interpretation, whereby the party members assume the negative interpretation for the Reich, that the Slovak people by its great Slavic brother in the East/Russians only have to expect the actual victory. against the panslavist tendencies are equally only political necessities.For in the internal circle precisely the Panslavistic idea is cultivated very strongly, because from the perspective of the whole Slavism the apparent size of the Slovak people is underlined, which strongly flatters the very needy Slovak people. The Slovaks see a great opportunity as mediators between the Germanic and Slavic circles and through a political strengthening for Slovakism.For example, the behaviour of the Minister of Justice, Dr. Fritz, is an example of a school for the political charlatanry.On Sunday, 28 February 1983, during a rally of Hlinka party in Grossmichel, the Slovaks firmly believe in the victory of the German weapons and this victory will also bring the victory to Slovaks.The task of Slovaks in their homeland is not to be influenced by the hostile insinuations, i.e. not to make a greater contribution to the victory by Pan-Slavism/. On 2 March, however, he welcomed the Bulgarian Minister of Justice Dr. Partoff, saying literally: "Again we experience this effective scene in the history of our Volkes, when Rastislav/Altslovak prince/ in the mighty Thebes greeted the great brothers from Bysantium, the Slovak Apostles Cyril and Method, of whom the Slovak people were the highest spiritual Grune: Christianity and Slavism. ...When I returned from my recent visit to Bulgaria, I brought powerful and unforgettable "impressions and the joyful production with me that we have in the southern Slavic brother a faithful and devoted friend who gives us all his heart and surrounds us with brotherly love." Despite this emphasis on Panslavism, Dr. Fritz further explained:"Our two friends Peoples are also associated in the present, through the historic Treaty of Three Powers, which we faithfully fulfil, in order to save Christianity, civilization, the joy and spiritual values of our peoples and of humanity under the leadership of the leader of the Great German Empire," in order finally to ask the Bulgarian guest to join the Bulgarian Slovakia to feel at home just as he/Dr.Fritz/ felt at home in Slovakian Bulgaria.