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

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806 - 4 - We don't have to remind you of this, we were stuck in the blockade and who owed the war. Jhr knows what the life that has put you under the protection of a higher race has brought you. It is to your fault that Jhr has no more happiness and joy, the Germans require harvest and cattle. But Jhr will also survive this, although we know that it is not easy for you. Jhr must remember, however, that your duty is to keep the people strong and healthy. Therefore Jhr always will help those who may be worse off than Jhr. Jhr will give them and will gladly sell to your Czech brothers and sisters at low prices, if Jhr may not have an abundance either. Jhr be able to endure! Jhr become accustomed to suffering and will bear it! Jr must tell you again and again: " Never it will be so bad that it will not be better again! - It will get better and the century will know exactly! Jhr must tell you again and again that many of you have to endure even more difficult trials. The Germans attack what is most expensive and most sacred to us, what your grandfathers have ravaged with your blood, what Jhr will have accumulated with love and pride for your children. The Germans seize all our land! We know that in November about 3o villages are to be bought out! We feel with you! We too were torn away from our land, which meant everything for us and which we loved, for which we wanted to sacrifice everything. I imagined the disintegration of these people quite well. How many of them will think that no one in the people cares for them. For the NS's relief action was forbidden. But tell yourself "Everything is only temporal, God alone is eternal!" Even the German trees will not grow into the sky! Your soil will soon come back into your hands, and there will be no despair. Today, more than ever, we can look confidently into the future! A week ago the whole American people spoke, they spoke clearly, determined and according to the time. Röosevelt was again elected president, who was the first to see through the Nazis with their policy of conquest. He was elected with a large majority and will certainly do everything to put an end to the Nazi filth and oppression. America has broken its tradition and elected a president third time to show that it is behind its policy. The consequences of this move will soon become apparent. Jch believes that many gentlemen in Berlin already have the horror and we are very pleased. The decision of America always means a lot of airplanes, tanks, guns and ammunition and I don't know what else! Everything you need for this modern war in England! All this will help us that the ësl, ground is returned to us again to make things better for our farmers. Jhr knows that all this is true, but Jhr must not say it loudly! The ears are stuffed and your eyes are joined so that Jhr will not hear and shet! However, your innate peasant cleverness will not let you down. Our radio station here strives to report book every day the real facts. Therefore head up, all things can be better and will be improved. -5