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

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235 -4 thirds and those of the "večer" from 40.ooo to 8.ooo. This proves the healthy Jnatinkt of the Czechs, who do not want to be stupidized for their good money. But some things the Czech miss and should read them too. And they should think, One of these is the talk of Goebbels to don cultural creators on ll.9. in Berlin. The squats themselves have added the greatest value to this speech and have spread it with all the means of media propaganda. Goebbels has taken the trouble and saw it with his own hands. In this speech is all reproach and the criminal spirit, which contain the trickery and valiantness, but also the perplexity, which feels a more violent one, who has destroyed something and who does not know how to create something new. The Czech man, for whom this speech was intended and for whom Goebbels came to Prague personally, can only gain self-confidence from this speech for the conduct of his struggle. All promises of Dr. Goeb Bel to the Czech people for the annexation are made on one condition: * When the war is over .. or when England is defeated ... For us Czechs this is powerful, because he admits that the Czech question is not settled sooner, until England is vemichtet etc. But he demands that the czech people decide immediately and not wait for the outcome of the struggle. He threatens that the decision for the Czechs will not be as favourable as it is now, the Czech people see clearly that in the event of a German victory nothing will hold back the Germans, then the German order will be valid, and the small peoples will be nothing but the ball of play, for the lunatics of the German superiors. But the Czech people prefer to wait for how the great struggle will proceed. Until then, however, our people will not contribute anything to the victories of the Germans who wish to bring about nothing but destruction: and will rather do everything possible to speed up the fall of Germany. If the Czech reader takes all this into account, then he sees the weak in the speech of Dr. Goebbels genz clearly. Dr. Goebbels has characterized the fighting and disputes of the German tribes in the past absunciation ads an overwound family matter. Warun should not look down on this fanatical affair, which was suppressed by the Germans. But Coebbels does not seem to know, since it is a difference for these peoples whether a German is slaughtering in his own concentration camp or a member of another people, that between the German student who shoots with Revclvern and the Czech. Students, who are shot, also have a great difference, above that the subordinates cannot look away in the long run amusedly. Germany's attitude towards the oppressed peoples has poisoned the striving for good conduct forever. Germany itself has opened up a deep gap between itself and other peoples. These are and were not the right methods to make with @enen Germany for the reorganization Propaganda. Goebbels will in vain try to convince us that the barbed wire of the German Kz's means a promotion of our own life, just as little as the sloping square meter of earth in which the Gestapo hides the bodies of our murdered students, nor does the sighting of the technical universities, which are the expression of our cultural own life. With Bavaria and Saxony, these things might be Bamilien concerns. d s c can be. He says nothing else than the old Prussian proverb "And if you don't want to be my brother, I'll punch your skull in!" We don ́t doubt about the German will to kill us closely! That ́s a -5-