STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2180, sig. 109-9/4

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English Translation

16 Hitler youths ! In this hour, as I can greet you on historical ground in the old German imperial city of Prague, I am filled with pride and joy. A few months ago, since the wete flags of our magnificent Wehrmacht were planted at this point, it has been a few months since the leader's standard went up on the first of the German imperial castle of Prague before our eyes. The next flags that flutter here in the wind are your comrades, the flags of Adolf Hitler's youth. If I look over your ranks and see your shining eyes in this place under the waving signs of the Empire, then all the things that the old empires of Bohemia and Moravia and their capital Prague mean to us will come to life at this hour. In this hour, the future of the empire will be symbolically expressed. 2.ooo of you have joined the confessional march. Star-shaped from all parts of our great German fatherland you march to the "Party Congress of Peace". For the first time in this year Memelland and Sudetenland march in your region.