English Translation

My dear boys and girls! While you have been at home during the Christmas season in recent years and are joyfully gathered together with your parents and siblings under the Christmas tree, this year it is the community of the camps of the Advanced Children's Land Dispatch, which surrounds you and calls you together under the light tree. When you are gathered at this hour in the many camps of the Kinderlandverschaltung in Bohemia and Moravia, I first convey to you my most cordial greetings. My dear boys and girls ! also this year we have to celebrate a war Christmas again. It is the fourth in the war imposed on us. Certainly, in this Christmas hour, each of you will direct his gratitude home, will be with his parents and sisters and will remember the beautiful hour he lived at home under the light tree in earlier years. War has taken you out of this parental community. You are experiencing Christmas like soldiers on the fronts, far from home in your young community. I know this Christmas will remain alive in your whole life in your memory. If it separates you from your parents' home, it gives you a beauty that you are well protected and safe placed.' Your parents are happy to know you so secure. You know that the enemy, who is powerless against our brave soldiers, tries to carry the war into the hinterland - 2 -