English Translation

The Imperial Protector W 4 July 1939 in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, the. II 6L8 VI No. It is requested to indicate this trade mark and the subject matter in further letters.Political Unit Confidential h Abschrift Subject: Considerations on the question of colors, flags and coat of arms of the Protectorate. A number of regulations concerning colours, flags and coats of arms contradict the sense of the assumption of protection by the German Reich. It is necessary to adapt them to the new traditions. The colours "white-red-blue" have been designated in § 5 of the constitution as "colours of the republic". According to the materials to the law of 30.3. l92o(p.d.G.u.V. No.252), with which provisions have been enacted concerning the state flags, the coats of arms and the state seals, the blue colour "as representative of Slovakia ", " the blue wedge (scl. the state flag) symbolizes the thought of the three hills in the Slovak coat of arms". This claim does not fully correspond to the fact that Slovakia never had an independent colour, but the Hungarian colours and coat of arms were used. Only in the production of the Slovak coat of arm was taken part of the un - garish and the three green hills by blue it - placed. The decisive factor in the choice of the three colours was that this tricolor also forms the so-called Slavic flag (pan - Slavic idea, flag of tsarist Russia, Serbia, now South Slavia), and is further used by the Western powers of France, Great Britain and the United States of North America. There is therefore a double possibility with regard to colours: Either to stand on the point of view of the materials of the law and to eliminate the "blue" throughout V B 1