STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 272, sig. 109-4/14 (damaged)

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Translation. 31 Prerau, 13.1.1941. To the Lord Reich Protector Baron von Neurath and the Lord Obergruppenführer K.H. Fürkde a3 sfekretärs boFy o o.ektor Jain Prag. in Boh Moravia. .165/8=1 Eing.: 12. FEB.1941 Very esteemed gentlemen! Tgb. nt.. The whole Czech public has taken note with great satisfaction of their statements and articles in the "New Day" and the "Bohemian and Moravian" inscription, which are directed against the decomposing activity of the Legionnaire's clique in the Protectorate. It is absolutely incredible that only now after two years of the establishment of the Protectorate there is a radical solution to this burning problem and it is a trauri- responsible document for our/Statemen /Eliáš that belongs to these adventurers/that they have not solved this urgent question long ago. Do we not have a capable person for the chair of the Prime Minister? On this responsible post must a former Austrian defector sit? Why was he put there? We do not believe it and will never believe that the President Dr. Hácha proposed him for it. Why did this adventurer not stay in the construction of the highway? If he was not capable of these tasks, all the less for the office of Prime Minister. However, the people are well aware of the goal pursued by the Národný souručenství with this appointment. But gentlemen, it is not just about Eliáš. So far we still have such Eliáš's at all central places of government and private service to hundreds, yes - sit in thousands and then you still wonder that the Czech people are passively disposed to the idea of the empire? Don't you wonder. As long as these adventurers, who should have been sent to Dachau immediately after March 1 939, continue to sit in their homes and are not rendered harmless, any attempt to cooperate with the Germans is in vain.