English Translation

96A418/43 13/3.43 Sealan BolsbafT ves H. H.hes, To the Czech Youth! FrME It is not the first time that I turn from my office to the Czech youth. Already in the year l940 I noticed with satisfaction that the Czech young people have a sense of responsibility and discipline, and have expressly thought of the new world that they must enter. I did not stop following the life and duties of our young people and the middle classes, and I observed how much these young people would be at a disadvantage, especially towards the German youth, if their education outside school continued to be without a purposeful public performance supported by the new world view. Today we already have this leadership in the form of the Curatorium for Youth Education, and it is up to all Czech young people to seize with full confidence and zeal the opportunity that it is offered. Every Czech boy and every Czech midchen must have the ambition to approach the model of the outstanding German knaben and midchen, who have adapted their former childish carelessness to the demands of the hard times through their genealogical awareness, sacrifice will and often also true heroism. I stress, as I have done before, that the war today imposes more difficult conditions than those under which youth lived in peacetime. It is unnecessary to recall that youth education, which we gradually initiate, will take into account the levels of education and will only complement what family and school cannot do to the full. You will have the pleasure of getting to know each other far closer than is the case in school, and will learn self-breeding and patience towards each other. From your common, for all equally compulsive upbringing, the most beautiful blossoms of upright companionship and lasting friendship relations should emerge. In your own interest, do not miss out on what is appropriate