A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 577, sig. 109-4324

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-+ - 37 supported by the conviction that reason springs from and perseverance and fatigue in the spread of these thoughts in the Se a r e de T a as Czech people. I mean a good future! We must not suffer from feelings of inferiority, but we must not be guided by the desire to rule Europe, nor must we have our own sovereignty in mind, which is perhaps even directed against Europe! As a people we are here and want to be here, how must we establish ourselves! We also have the opportunity to crush the hard Czech skulls, especially today, but we are not supposed to sobb, branch and be idle. The last paragraph of the ruling of 16.3.1939 on the establishment of the Protectorate reads: "Enveloped by a serious desire to serve the real interests of the nations living in this habitat, to secure the national peculiarity of the German and Czech people's own lives, peace and soc. In the name of the German Empire, to promote prosperity, I order the following as a basis for the future cohabitation of the inhabitants of these territories......" Those who see a contradiction in this text today should remember that war is war and that the Czech side itself has often given the reason for this, especially for the application of the article ll of the aforementioned decree: "The kingdom can issue legal decrees for the Protectorate, as far as this makes common interests necessary!" That the interest of the empire caused sharpest intervention in the sabotage and maffia revolutions, perhaps everyone will conjure up. I would therefore like a new answer to the question of what will happen with -5-