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The leader 21 of the party liaison office at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. CLAST 18 MSUT l. Dr. J/Ma. Prag IV, 3o April 41. epCJen SE64TGEN Burg, Nordflügel. X Mr. Reichsleiter Pg. Martin B o r m a n n n München 33 Braunes Haus. Subject: Greetings before the memorial of the unknown Czech soldier at the Old Town Ring in Prague. The emergence of the history of honour for the unacquainted soldier at Old Town Town Hall is well known to all Prague peoples. At the end of March 1939, General Blaskowitz laid down a wreath in a delicate form, which first drew the Czechs' attention to the fact that it was a place of consecration. Since that time, gas flames have been burning during the day and both Czechs and Germans are passing by with greetings. Now, in fact, there can be justified doubts about the further retention of this honor, for the unknown soldier who is buried in the chapel of the town hall was a Czech defector who fell in the battle at Zborov, i.e. in the fight against the central powers and thus against Germanism. We do not have any reason to somehow let passers-by and legionaries be magnificent as unknown soldiers or in monuments of unknown soldiers. The fact that this funeral feast of the unknown soldier clearly revolves around the legionary ideology is demonstrated by the orders, which until recently were fixed on the cushion in front of the coffin of the unfamiliar soldier. They have only now been removed in the course of the general cleansing. If it were a tribute to that unknown soldier, who bravely fulfilled his duty on the side of the central powers, then we Germans and likewise before him could have been denied, because this unknown soldier could have also been a German Pragt. Now, for all of us, but especially for the Czechs, this is a strange picture that, on the military side, according to the best regulations, the feast of honour is celebrated, while the party, with its divisions and also the Waffen-SS, has banned the testimony of honor for its relatives before this memorial, with the reason that it is a place of honor of the deserters of the k.und k. ==References== In the days of the invasion in March 1939 and also in the following months until the outbreak of the war, the laying of the wreath and the order of duty of the Wehrmacht may have been a skilful and friendly gesture for the Czech people. Today, however, such a declaration of honor seems completely superfluous to all people, especially in the hindsight of the opposing orders of the Reichsprotektor, the Party and its