STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2473, sig. 109-12/12120

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66 Prague ,on 2I September 1939 Sxy i3. To Freifrau Neurath My Freewoman! The military surcharges decided by your husband are generally perceived as the greatest and most screaming injustice, for the following reasons: The war strike violates, my free woman, against the so often proclaimed so-called attitude of National Socialism, because precisely the poorest classes/workers, day laborers, employed people, are taxed ruthlessly and drakoniseh, without anyone accepting their own / formerly it was at least the social-democratic deputies / who pointed to injustice and makes the enforcement of such a raging impossible. It is precisely the poorest classes who condemn, my free woman, every war and especially a war of robbery as pronounced as it is.How do these robbed classes come to finance such a war? If Hitler has a need to unleash such wars and to incite the whole world against the undeserved people, he should pay himself this war together with the war-mongers,Göring,Goebbels,Henlein,Neurath,Höss,Frank,Plha,Meduna,Neuwirth,Krebs,Sebekowsky,Zieppelius,Himler etc., etc. We, poor people, will pay nothing.In addition, according to the report of the Oberkommando, this war was already victorious, immeasurable war material has been captured, the German capitalists have again /after Austria,Sudetenland,Tshcechei /enriched,so with one - for every reason for further taxation of the workers masses!!! We workers insist on these principles and draw your attention, Freifrau, to the fact that we are under no circumstances willing to let these unbearable burdens be imposed on us. We grant you a period of 8 days within which we, Freifrau, are obliged to withdraw these war bonuses in the term of office of your husband: "The New Day". After the unsuccessful expiry of this period, they have to prepare themselves, ebanso as their husband Konstantin in the extreme! If you, Preifrau , still put a weight on your and your husband's life, we recommend that you: