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

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bE fowg emerge a virtuous resistance movement, which was able to disappoint the empire, but which could endanger Bohemia and Moravia in its entirety. The last government, despite an otherwise excellent knowledge of the news of the things of space, out of inability or negligence, or - as some prominent examples show - deliberately did not fight this development. Irresponsibly, no one has had the courage to judge Mr. State 8 Presidents about the dangerousness of these things. Thus, after my appointment as Deputy Reich Protector, it was reserved for me to inform the President of the State and to do with a hard hand what this Czech government had failed to do in two and a half years. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the confidence of the President and, as I would like to assure you, my confidence has also supported a great,