STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 446, sig. 109-4/191

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English Translation

4p At a time when under the flags of the Empire and the allied Italy, the entire youth of Europe has entered the final battle against plutocracy and Bolshevism, I do not want to fail to say a few words to you. I expect you to do it better than your fathers and that you will honestly cooperate in building a new order in Europe. The Führer's decision spared you from the consequences of this war. Even the spectre of unemployment you did not know thanks to the Führers caring. Be grateful to the Fuhrer for this! Your future also depends to a great extent on how you proved yourself in the time of war and I am telling you quite frankly: a generation has rarely been given as much responsibility for the future as you have been entrusted today as the unfortunate inheritance of your fathers. But if you want to go towards a happier and better future, you want once more to participate in the wealth of the world, in the overseas countries and in everything that has been withheld from Germany so far by its clean-minded people, then help to build a new Europe. Don't say that you are too small and weak and-nothing can contribute to the victory. Rather, prepare yourself already now for the tasks that will weep you within the scope of the empire in a larger Europe. In a new and better organized Europe, not only work and bread will be available for you, but also everything that man needs to live a decent life in a rich mass. If you already think and learn to act today in the sense of the kingdom, then it will not be difficult for you later and then you need not be afraid of your future any more.