STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2748, sig. 109-14/51 (damaged)

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80:68 -E- The Czech people have only one government and this is here in our home country. The Czechs, who are governed by the orders of their legal government, have nothing to fear and can live happily. On the other hand, those who do not follow their legal pre- ra a a aa the legal government here in our country, who vird meet the deserved punishment, such Czechs exclude themselves from the Czech Community. The government of Bohemia and Kähren will do everything it can to defend the criminal work of the Czechs and their agents with all of them at their disposal, and will demand the unconditional cooperation of every Czech. The broad mass of the Chechish people, like its government, stands in unwavering fidelity to the Great German Empire. In this difficult hour, when everything is dear and sacred to the Czech people, the government must be and remain tough until it succeeds in completely eradicating in Bohemia and Moravia those elements which serve England and the other enemies of the empire and - that every Czech finally has to be clear - the Czech nation is completely indifferent. Anyone who goes with England and its allies is a public enemy of the Czech people and