STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2185, sig. 109-9/9 (damaged)

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81 Division IV - Radio Group Strictly confidential! Only for personal radio and light service use! In own responsibility to destroy test number 44/ /43! ( § 353c RSTGB.) Reports of 13.2.43 X London (18.30 o'clock, Czech): Eastern Front: Hitler's Donets army is running an ever greater risk of being completely locked up, as the Red Army directs its attacks against them from three directions. Aich the inclusion of Rostov makes further progress. In the Caucasus, the remnants of the German Caucasus army have now lost their last largest base with Krasnodar. Mediterranean Front: In northern Tunisia, the British forces have retaliated a strong German attack. In southern Tunisia, reconnaissance attacks of combat vehicles and scouts of 8th Army. In the coastal area, about 35 km west of the tripo- litanian border, an artillery was carried out yesterday. A short summary of yesterday's speech by Rosevelt. As the main point was emphasized, the march of the allied associations on the pavement, Berlin, Rome and Tokyo would mean the day of victory and the end of the war. 15 minutes of talks with the homeland: "The preeident of the Czech Republic, Dr. Eduard Benes: Fanfare sounds! Czechoslovak citizens! At a moment when the Red Army is constantly reaching the greatest victories on the Eastern Front and the brunt of all the freedom-loving peoples of the whole world are beating faster, I too would like to say my word to you out of this joy. September l942, the day on which Hitler, this master of strategy, surprised the world by his declaration that the German army had gone from the offensive war to the definitive defense? Since that day many speeches were made, but even more plots happened. Not long after that, for example, did so. Göring and Goebbel's Hit-lers Annunciation. Then followed the fall of I942, in which the Russian offensive was initiated, which was only laughed at in Germany at the beginning. On January 1, 1943, German propaganda emphasized that since the beginning of the offensive at Stalingrad, the Red Army had always only done what Hitler wanted. But then, one day later, on January 1, General Dietnar's radio conversation sounded considerably different from the warning to the German people that the situation was not too rosy. Stalingrad has suffered a catastrophe, the Red Army is in an attack on all fronts,