STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2535, sig. 109-12/182

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2 their mothers and women, who left them in Europe, are not hungry. We regret it, but all kind-hearted people could spare themselves their good fortune if they had joined the unfortunate Europe at the time when this Europe did not need American food, but some solid words from America. We regret it, but we believe that if these kind-hearted people had not hurt the heart about the sufferings of the Sudeten Germans two years ago, oppressed by the inhuman and Bolshevik Czechs, there would now be no hunger in Bohemia or elsewhere in Europe. But then America had only an embargo and isolationism for Europe, at that time it saw in the President's demand "Quarantine for Angreifer" only a war incitement and unnecessary alarm, which disturbed the peaceful digestion ... Hoover's plan allegedly set up everything in such a way that American food does not help the Germans, but only those who really live in the occupied countries. The distribution of food would allegedly oversee the Americans; if the Germans confiscated some of these food, the sending would immediately be interrupted and the Germans would be exposed to the whole world as liars. Hitler's government had allegedly guaranteed that it would not even touch the food and had always kept its word in such matters ... Anyone who cites such arguments in defense of the Hooverplan only proves that, despite everything that has happened in recent years, he understands Nazism as the goat does parsley. Of course, the Germans do not touch these foods, of course, that we can believe this - sometimes Hitler, who broke all his promises ! A few days ago, American newspapers published statements by the Nazi minister Darré.