STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2026, sig. 109-7/33

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Josef Zeibrlich Publisher Prague, on 19 March 1941. Prague,Mathias Braunstrasse 26. XVI. Inonin für 5 Mnithonng, 26.3. 12h Lre. ano L5. 3. 4g40 fei deow $\\ Budergeicharer Hochgeehrte Doctor! Will you forgive me for harassing you with this letter. However, the crowd of existence in the world that affects more or less every individual today is approaching the culmination point and thus the decision, and since I am a fairly clear picture of what was, and will have for my person what you will forgive me, I would like to express to you, since I value your political experience, judgment and will very much. It was clear to me from all the beginnings of the war that this war became a world war and that a compromise in this wrestling was excluded.I wrote to you about this a year ago, as you may remember, I had the honour to debate with you several times politically, and I certainly do not go far when I say that your convictions and views touch hard with my own.Ethically and historically certainly. The second time the Germans, today the Germans are in the struggle for death and life with an empire.If they have not completely victoriously passed the battle with the anti-Ken Roman Empire, they have cut off his arm, who wanted to take over them further northward, and had the political negotiations between Caesar and Ariovist been positive, how different the world would be today.But that was not allowed by the arrogance of a Roman at that time. At the same time, however, a fall of the Roman Empire would not have been a good thing for humanity, for it was the only bulwark of culture and civilization at that time, one can say of its legacy humanity still lives and will live today. However, at the moment when the Germanic forces put an end to the Roman Empire, the Romans were morally already møxztixek so low down, and politically already so impotent that a further expansion of the empire was no longer in the interest of humanity. And this is and remains in history a great merit of the barbaric Germs, as one still today beyond the great puddle Therefore, if at that time a further encroachment of the ancient empire was not in the interest of humanity, then today the survival of the British Impery is all the less in the interests of humanity.For what England has given in the culture and civilization of mankind, besides its own culture, the other nations of its exploitation because of And is today's morale of the English and their politics constructively not even deeper than in then Rome? In this respect, everything would be historical analogy.However, the leitmotifs of humanity of antiquity were in terms of their -