STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1922, sig. 109-6/14 Page 19 · 19 of 25
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1922, sig. 109-6/14
English Translation
To all members of the party and of the people! The call, which was issued on the occasion of the last Sunday of the victims, was warmly received by many and triggered a deep understanding, e.g. with those people, who long ago gave their part according to the WIiv. Unfortunately, he found a small echo with those people for whom he was destined, namely with the wealthy and seniors. Reich Minister Pg. Dr. Goebbels writes in his editorial in the weekly magazine "Das Reich": "The war we are waging today is neither a war of the government nor of the Wehrmacht nor the party. It is a war of the whole world, just as the whole people, and without exception, will once benefit from the success of this war, so the whole nation, without exception and without any exception, must also share in its burdens. One must not put oneself on the stand that while some fight and use their lives, others have the right to play peace." Is it perhaps with you, folk comrade, who did not want to take note of my last call, not also as it is said here at the end that you take the right out of playing peace while the others fight? Is it perhaps a victim when a folk comrade with about 700 RM spends 10 RM to the war WHW? Exact surveys in two of the largest local groups of the district of Prague have given that people with an income of over 600 RM on average not only give relative but also absolutely less than people with a much lower income. My call, though addressed to all, is therefore directed primarily at those people who enjoyed it, and is intended to ensure that the unfavourable picture of the readiness for action for the World War II fundamentally changes. What we have become and we possess, we only owe to our leader, who eliminated the greatest danger. The year 1942 is therefore supposed to unite us even more fully and joyfully than worthy companions of the greatest man of our people and his heroic, sacrificial soldiers, who now stand on the post for us at the greatest cold without rest and rest. We want to remember in the winter relief work the words of the Führer: "What the front offers, that can be rewarded by nothing at all. But also what the homeland does must be able to endure before history. Everyone knows what he must do at this time. Every woman, every man, they know what they rightly demand from them, and what they are obliged to give. If they only go on the streets once and if they are in doubt whether they should give again, give or not, then they may turn only one glance sideways: VIELLENTLY WILL BE A BEGENING WHO HAS GERMANY MORE THAN THEY." The district representative for WHW. 117