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

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S9 the other needs violence. Fighting does not mean turning on violence, but fighting back. Masaryk also said: No power of the world and if they unite with hell, a educated and brave people can keep in slavery. Dr. Prokop Tvrdy says ??: In the CSR, our home country, a new sell of violence and terror has begun. We thought that this would happen right after the arrest of the primator Klapka. The last remains of the self-government were destroyed - almost everyone was arrested in the town hall. Practical activity was forbidden to the Prague district of Národni Souroučenstvi. However, the persecutions of the Nazi are directed not only against the living, but also against the dead. The Masaryksta- do in Prague ? had to be removed. The fortune and the buildings of the Red Cross confiscated vurden. Not even the name of the Evatopluk Čech is spared. Every good Czech must make it a heavy blow if ar sees the names of his heroes disfigured in the hideous Schwbach writing. But it is not about what the Germans do, but about what they do or do not do, who are supposed to defend and introduce the people. It is about those who do not satisfy their fatherland and state obligations and who, however, are only a few, even help the enemy. To this we address the following words: We know them well and know what they are doing ! We know everyone who makes up his or her duties, we know exactly what happens at home and how everyone benefits, Now that we have acquired our state authority in England, we can also describe it more closely. It is primarily a supreme of the csl. He is not only a coward, but also a traitor who has broken his oath. He will not even save Himmler's permission to wear a revolver for his protection. Nor has our attention been missed by those who want to gain the wisdom of the German Nazi by propagandizing a rise of the Czechs in the German Reich. He has the visibly striving to become a lecturer in the law sciences at the Czech University. No one must believe that what he has in these difficult hours of Czech. We do not speak of individuals who run around in the uniforms of the Vlajka, because they are people who are superfluous to speak of. To use these people at all and not to disgust themselves with them is only the impure Hitlerism able. It will not be forgiven, whether someone has acted out of fear and cowardice or out of rigour or dishonor. For everyone will come retribution and judgment. On August 14th is the birthday of Lariä. In the previous year this was a beautiful summer evening. Before me lay the South Bohemian land, a true Faradies on earth. It was so quiet and beautiful there, but the question floated everywhere, will this country be free again ? will this people be able to laugh again ? Or was peace bought only at its expense ? Everything looked so hopeless! And yet 14 days later the answer came and one hoped again, the war had broken out! You righteous may believe again and hope, but you guilty among you fear Book I Everything is only temporary, only God is eternal.