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

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83 - 3 - but now, in the fourth year of the war, the Nemesis is no longer far away, and to this certainty come the voices of Churchill and Rosevelt from Casablanca and Churchill's speech of last Thursday with their intense clarity and compromiselessness. The struggle continues until the unconditional surrender of Germany and Ita- lien. Italy, which has already lost the last piece of its impediment, will close Germany's case. It is already the long war with which the Nazis had threatened you a short time ago, should not be too long. And now I would like to direct my words directly to you, chsl. citizens! You are now already in the fight with Nazism for the fourth year, your defense is brilliant, but I am sure that you, too, have already wondered in weak moments whether it might not be possible for this barbaric monster, Hitler, to get away with victory or that you might already be suffering and tormented before a victorious end of the war. The Germans and your own quisslings have repeatedly assured you that the German army is invincible, that it is a necessity for the Czech people to surrender to the German Pangermanism and not to let you be driven by the legacy of your generation, the generation of Masaryk, into a resistance that is useless. All of these mindless, faithless and moralless political asteries served only the Nazis as a mouthpiece, and you can imagine for yourselves how terrible it would have been if Germany had actually won the victory. This swindle of unjust accusations, convictions and slanders, which would then be poured over the Czech country, would truly mean the end. But you are not afraid to have victory, our victory knocks at the doors of Rome, Berlin, Zagreb, Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade and Pressburg. She, the great as well as the small criminals, will have the same fate.And indeed to him who, after the end of this war, does not have to be filled with the terrible consciousness of having worked through betrayal and ambush at the demise of the fatherland. It is already useless today to try to get out of the trap by betrayal, new treason, cowardice or similar machinations. The tragedy is approaching its end, and one beautiful day the hour of victory has come truly and truly. It will be a glorious day, a day of joy, but also a day for mourning in memory of the victims of this terrible time, which will lie behind us like an evil dream, a days of joyful beginning, the beginning of the creation of a new home and a new world, but a day also of reckoning. Yes, listen carefully, their Dalueges, Franks, Moravecs, their Tisos, Tukas, etc., etc... Everyone will then be mercilessly judged according to the magnitude of his crime, and then the hour will come when vir will return from exile, from England, America and the Soviet Union to his homeland, in order to give an account of our work to the whole people. We are already proud of this work, which was dedicated only to you, to our people and to us: beloved homeland. I am convinced that we will find our own way to our new state, and that we