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

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4 4 - others. More than seem to be ! The sacrifice of the individual, which will be made in the coming months, is small and meaningless in relation to the sacrifice which the whole nation now has to bring for the kingdom. Again, we must march at the top I therefore demand from each of you men unreserved commitment to the last and most evident. Anyone who has gone once with us can never go back. There is now no tiredness and despair - and if even so difficult hours come over us, we must always be the first, the bravest and the most loyal. In need you have to prove that you are men and fighters and emergency days will come in this most difficult of all wars that the kingdom had ever to stand. But I also call for each individual's own camaraderie/combat community. Unconsidered and with iron rigour is taken against anyone who breaks comradeship. Genuine and faithful comradeship in war helps to overcome all need and must prevail.