STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 380, sig. 109-4/125

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hv E/Mx - 87/Pres. March 15 and the Czech working people. In a gathering of representatives of all the factors of the Czech workers' union movement, which took place on March 14, 1941, the chairman of the National Trade Union Centre of Labour, Wenzel Stočes, presented the following rally: The establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of a result of the creative generosity of the leader and Chancellor of the Reich, Adolf Hitler's and the wise foresight of the President of the State Dr. Emil Hácha represents a historical turning point in the development of this area and of the Czech people. Through this decision, the Czech People have turned away the disastrous: the monsters of war and horrors and have preserved peace and quiet, the foundations of the flourishing and upswing of every people. The Czech people have thus been given the natural connection with the German Reich and the German people, who in the thousand-year history of both peoples has been so well fed to the benefit of the Czech people. If today, in general and in national politics, the importance of this change with which the unfortunate period of the