THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43

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132 -5- Since Hitler did not get any further in England, he must look for cheap victories where otherwise.. therefore now in Romania. He hoped to overcome from there Greichland and Turkey. If the axis of survival should be Hitler must do at least as bb Mussolini is an equal partner. So far Graziani has, despite his superiority over the brit. Defences have not been successful and German troops must now engréifen. In Spain, Hitler is eager to organize a sub-irdisc current kex in order to drag Spain into the war. However, German troops will have to be deployed there to enslave a free people.- So Hitler's strategy is subjugated to other peoples because he cannot defeat England.- Consequences of the expansion however are: Every other occupied country becomes a mortal enemy of Germany! The reactionary powers - the bankers, the great owners of the land - beat themselves on the side of Germany to save their property. It is the fate of the Germans that every decent person is their feeling and that they must call every adventurer their friend. Germany wins itself to death. Hitler thereby causes the union of the forces of freedom. We are very pleased with the support of the whole New World, the peoples in the silent ocean, for example. Hitler has put an end to the isolation policy in the USA. He has made the Americans introduce the military duty of service and mobilize the industry. These are all reasons why we consider the new development in the Balkans with peace and confidence. We know that this world crisis will not happen in the Mediterranean and the Balkans - lecture Byika M_a_n_n!_: What is the fight for by the German people? ... There is now a bad winter ... America is helping England and there can be even bigger surprises ... The Nazi leaders know that they represent a bad thing and they are not sure of themselves... On the other hand, it unites the people in England.. brave and courageous. (The whole content of the lecture consisted of these and similar irrelevant propaganda phrases, which were spoken by Erika Mann in person. This emphasized that she had to say goodbye for a longer time, because she wanted to return to America... She would not return to the USA out of rigour, but to work there for the cause of democracy. It would not bother her to die alongside the brave English people in London, because then her life would have had true meaning ... but unfortunately it would not work! The work in the USA is waiting!) 0C018