English Translation

Copy. National Socialist German Workers' Party Göm dol eTordre b bo Ilkt anubieroetnä enis tedles Tetdii reE The head of the party liaison office at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. ITef+tH ItoH Gl. Dr. J/Ma LOSTDE TALA Prague IV, 3o April 1941 Burg, Nordflügel. - Mr. e ) Reichsleiter Pg. Martin B o r m a n n Münch en 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 the honor for the unknown Sol date at the Altstadter Rathaus is well known to all Prague people. At the end of March 1939, General Blaskowitz laid down a wreath in a solemn form, which first drew the Czechs' attention to the fact that they had a place full of consecration. Since that time, gas flames have been burning during the day and both Czechs and Germans have passed by with greetings. Now, in fact, there could be justified doubts about the further maintenance of this honor, for the unknown soldier who is buried in the Council House Chapel 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 to let an Aņlass, defectors and legionaries be glorified somehow as unknown soldiers or in demners by unknown soldiers. The orders, which until recently were attached to the cushion in front of the coffin of the unknown soldier, prove that this tomb of the unidentified soldier is clearly about the legionary ideology. They have only now been removed in the course of the general cleansing. If it were a tribute to that unknown soldier who bravely fell his duty on the side of the central powers, then we Germans could also bow before him, because this unknown soldier could have been a German Prague. Now this is a strange picture for all of us, but especially for the Czechs, that, on the military side, according to the existing rule, the memorial is greeted, while the party, with its divisions and also the Waffen-SS, offered the tribute to its relatives before this memorial, on account of the fact that it is a place of honor of the Deser- expensive 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 wreath laying down and the order of duty for 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 with regard to the opposing orders of the Reichsprotector, the Party and its divisions on the one hand and the Wehnmacht on the other hand. If the Czechs are left their memorial and their pylons until the end of the war - a duty of horror should be suspended for German soldiers.