STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 550, sig. 109-4/297 Page 23 · 23 of 44
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 550, sig. 109-4297
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-3 - 8U Conversation with Dr. Schmidt maintains the impression as if he was quite willing to say the course and speech. I note: Mr. Hruby is wrong if he thinks he is in 1918 and could deceive with such "Svejkoviny" (?) limp Austrian Beam- te. On 7.2.1943 Minister Hrubi spoke at the opening of the production battle. In this speech I asked for a large statement against Bolshevism, but Minister Hruby made a highly nationalized speech, speaking of the need-to-do-your-village debate, he omitted the sentences against Bolschevism which he had prescribed. These are the sentences: "For a millennium, since the invasions of the Turks and Mongol hordes, the fate of Europe has not passed by the abyss as hard as in this greatest of all wars. The Czech peasant, too, regards Bolshevism as his mortal enemy, to whom he is irreconcilably opposed. We are aware that everything that is sacred and expensive to us would be destroyed if the flood of Bolshevism were to pour over Europe."