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

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54 Division IV - Group Radio Strictly confidential! Broadcasting and Helldienst Only for personal use! In your own responsibility to destroy Prüfnumer 71/ /43! ( § 353c RSTGB.) Reports of 13.3.43 London ( czech, 18.3o clock ): West Front: Essen was heavily bombed by hundreds of British fighter planes last night.Except for targets in Liège and Rouen were attacked by Allied associations Eastern Front: In Kharkov bitter Russian resistance against strong German associations. German soldiers were killed in the capture of the city of Vjasme during the days known by a Russian Šonder report.Middle Sea Front: Further German attacks were smashed in northern Tunisia.In southern Tunisia, new German retreat.Allied combat aircraft are fighting civil war in front of Sicily. In the German-occupied countries (France, Belgium, Holland, Greece) resistance to Hitler's labor mobility is growing. The British Foreign Minister has arrived at Waschingtor at the invitation of the American directorate. 20 minutes of talks with the home country: Fanfarenklänge. "The Presidential President of the Republic Dr. Edvard Benes.: Czechoslovak citizens, Slovaks! I am addressing you in particular today, Slovakians, as I promised you not too long ago.The international situation has now reached such a high point that it is time for me to take part in the 4th World War. The disastrous defeats of the Germans on the Eastern Front since November i942 to this day are only the beginning of new decisive defeats. If Russia were to win the war, and if they were to be driven out of Poland and Czechoslovakia, they would destroy these countries and their peoples, they are only a proof not only of their moral impoverishment, but above all of their fears of all that is still to come, and of a desperate attempt to achieve a compromise at all costs before it is too late. For almost four years I have been telling you from London that in the end we, the Allies, will be able to win. And now this victory is coming. throughout the last few weeks, this has brought this to your attention from Berlin itself.