English Translation

Division vI 35 -IA Prague, 8 February 1943. In his speech on the opening of the production battle on 7.2.1943 from the following paragraph against the Bolshewiemus, Minister Hr u bf has read the words and phrases written in red "This duty against the homeland and the rich is something we particularly seriously miss these days. 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. We are grateful that it is again the German people of soldiers and thinkers who have set out on the Way of the Cross and, with an enormous array of soldiers' and civilian burdens, but also of sacrifices and suffering, fulfils its sacred mission of being the savior of Western culture and its moral values. The Czech peasant, too, regards Bolshevism as his mortal enemy, to whom he irreconcilably opposes. We are aware that everything that is sacred and expensive to us will be destroyed if the flood of the mud of Bolshevikism spills over Europe. We therefore want to take full advantage of the tasks assigned to us 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 use all our forces to produce and deliver more honestly. Any other attitude would be terrible self-deception and betrayal of the homeland.9 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.