STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2231, sig. 109-11/32

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407 rescue. Elbogen has just 34,000 inhabitants in the circle, this answer is given to everyone who does something for the salvation of my father city. In the party is decently worked =,or one sees there also a lot of men and woman= I en, who before the connection have kept nicely warm behind the oven. I myself have the following pas= sierrt: I signed up for the party in Cologne, after the last announcement from Cologne my application has already been sent to the Reichsleitung of the NSDAP in Feber l939 and until today I have no red card, or I was a member of the Gaustudentenführung and also before S 1933 in the NSJ and following in the SHF. But for this, for example, the civic school teacher Baumann, who only just caught the hole in April xl938, has had the red card for a while. I understand the things as they lie, but let's say it happens to an old partymate who doesn't understand et= quite a bit of delay, he of course beats at the beer table and that's uncomfortable. The SS underleaders already carry them, nobody has them yet. (I mention the SS here because they were the first to receive this badge of honour from the leader, not perhaps because I am not good at it as a SA under= leader, on the contrary, I Ver= r. Allgoum Bku wears me very well with the SS comrades.) By the way, the mood is the same as in all West Bohemian vaCities.t Now I would like to end by writing you some very personal things, which oppress me so much, but which I will fight with the greatest energy. You can still remember that at the time of the foundation