STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 457, sig. 109-4/202

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.34 Therefore, look as a pest of the nation to anyone who, perhaps in private, would accept the idea of the slightest resistance to the applicable order, against the Empire or against the only legal government that is the government of the State President Dr. Emil Hacha. Under the laws written and moral only, you are obliged to this government by obedience. The Government of the Protectorate therefore appeals to you at all Bohemia and invites you: Don't let the nation perish! They turn mainly to all workers of the spirit and hands and especially to the younger generation, which has the most fruitful life- path ahead of you. Work with the greatest effort, knowing that the future in the frame of the Empire is in your hands. Therefore, try to help everyone to make the Protectorate of Žechy and Moravia one of the most perfect components of the Great German Empire. Buăte believes that in this war on life and death a German soldier and the German Reich will conquer the new European order according to plan and under the leadership of the Fuhrer. We are on the threshold of a new time. So put your hand to the work, do not look back and work for the future. Each of us must contribute to the economic development, social well-being and cultural boom that the Czech nation, one of the fittest in Europe, has to make an example of this work. The government itself wants to serve Czech things and the Empire as best as possible. It will do everything to ./.