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

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2 G h feels the same way we do. "The total blockade was set up for the purpose that the German war industry could not obtain important raw materials. x Could anyone ever seriously believe that it is right from the moral point of view to do away with the blockade and allow the supply of food to the German occupied countries? Does anyone in the world really believe that the Germans would not steal from these food for themselves all that was bothering them? Does the Germans not steal everything they could, in Warsaw, in Paris, in Oslo and in Prague? Does anyone really believe that it would be possible to force Nazi Germany to change its lethodes and to develop in the spirit of humanity any quest for supply to the starving Poles, Czech Slovaks and French? Has not the German governor of Poland, Frank, recently explained that it is necessary to deal with the Poles like annoying beasts and that what is geeigáef for the Pole is not considered for the German master race ? It is very dangerous to believe that the devtsche leopard sus of his skin can hersus. "Emissaries of the French government in Vichy told me in the United States in the summer, when the Germans opened a violent propeganda for the relaxation of British propaganda, that the unoccupied France was not in connection with the part of France occupied by the Germans, and that the Germans had no legal authority in the vacant France. These emissaries confirmed that it was great not to send the suffering Frenchmen in unoccupied France any life clothes and other goods. I spoke very briefly and flushly with spreading these poisoning lies. Let us compare France with the human body. If a criminal kneels in front of me on the ground, my feet are tied and I have the knife on my throat, but my hands still remain free - then I hold the