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

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Rale Id fen Saupkali ang n Apie Ring 2. 33. X7 It is a great pleasure for me to be able to warmly greet Dr. Robert Ley, head of the Reichsorganisation, and our Gauleiter Konrad Henlein at the first rally of the National Socialist Germans Ar- S S t treter and in the name of the Reiehsprotector, His Excellency Freiherr von Neurath. Ieh also welcomes the representatives of the Party, the State and the Wehrmacht and all the people gathered here. In addition, however, from this historical site of the capital of the Protectorate I greet all Germans in the cities and villages of Bohemia and Moravia, to whom today, on which the house of the party was inaugurated in Prague, is supposed to be a symbol and sign of the strength and power of the National Socialist German Reich, I would like to give some words on the way to this rally. It is of particular importance to the Germans, but also to the Czechs, on two sides. The Germans should and must once again become clear about the enormous historical act of the leader, which he has accomplished with the now for ever-permanent reclassification of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia into the empire. Nothing can better illustrate this than the fact that today German National Socialists have taken part in a full-scale rally on this historic Old Town Square in Prague, which is so important, and we are able to book here, where barely 15 months ago the Schergeh of a government of Benesch persecuted and enslaved all Germans. Today, over this beautiful country, which has been our home for centuries, the swastika banner for all times and no German in the country is to suffer more from now on. You Germans of Bohemia and Moravia should know this and \x B