English Translation

Division VI 32 VI- 2000-58 Prague, February 8, 1943. In his speech on the opening of the production battle on February 7, 19943 from the following paragraph against Bolshevism, Minister H r u b ý left out the words and phrases written in red: "We must become particularly aware of this duty towards the homeland and the rich in these days. For a millennium, since the invasions of the Turks and Mongol hordes, the Sehicksal Europe did not pass by the abyss as hard as in this greatest of all wars. We are grateful that it is again the German people of the soldiers and thinkers who have begun the Way of the Cross and, with an enormous array of soldiers and civil servants, but also of victims and suffering, fulfils his sacred mission to be saviors of Western culture and its moral values. 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 Bolshevi's mud was poured over Europe. We therefore want to work with all our might for the tasks we have set in our homeland, the first of which is to increase agricultural production in all areas. The victims of blood on the battlefield were spared our people, the more we want to put all our forces into producing more and delivering them honestly. Any other attitude would be terrible self-deception and betrayal of the homeland." On Friday, however, Minister Hruby handed over the full text of the paragraph to the press, so that it appears in most newspapers in its original version. 00000