STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2531, sig. 109-12/178 (damaged)

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3. 28 Czech people, sketched our statement for the next time. He said: With the integration of the countries of Bzhmen and Moravia into the Great German Reich, this area has become unchangeable and for all times Reichsland and thus self-understanding - and urgent German area of interest. Just like all the other Linders of the Reich, the Protectorate now has only one task, as part of the Empire, to contribute to the victory of the Kingdom. Our duty is to solve this audacity resthos and to the last ... From the words of the Secretary of State K. H. Frank we can see that the Empire expects a Czech contribution to victory. Let us be well aware that this betrayal of the empire is perhaps our valuable political capital, a basis on which the Czech people can build their policies both today and in the coming post-war Europe. We know - now that it is about being or not being, that the empire will use everything to fight victory. The kingdom cannot be defeated and we are sure of its moral and military superiority - it is therefore in the Czech interest of the Czechs to make a conscientious effort that the Protectorate also has its meritorious part in this victory. After the war, the Czech politicians, too, will follow their actions by pointing out this loyalty and our contribution to the victory of the region. This is the only basis on which one can rely, and at the same time this is the most suitable Terrsin, on which we and Germanism can be brought to one more easily. And another sentence from the Saturday rally, which was intended for the Sudeten Germans bakxkmkxx, but which is also valid for the Czech citizens. This sentence lukewarm -