STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2318, sig. 109-11/120

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9-6h So that means for you: You are already a member of a great empire, which is about to give Europe a new order. It wants to tear down the barriers that still separate the European peoples and pave the way for them to each other. It aims to end a state that, of course, cannot satisfy humanity in the long term. So we are doing a reform work here, which I am convinced will be written with very large letters in the book of European history=. Can you imagine what the empire will mean after the war? You know that, in addition to the political rise of the Empire, we are eager to carry out such a cultural and economic activity, and you know that we want the people themselves to participate in these measures and their results. I take an example: While we have so far supplied our s6 million Germans with the German film, in the future we have a paragraph= area of immense expansion at our disposal. It is up to you whether you want to participate in it or whether you would like to put yourself in a quiet passivity to the realm. They will trust us that, in the second case, we will have enough resources and opportunities to: