STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 362, sig. 109-4/107

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150 e The NFFK-Bturm 18/40 Prague The motto of the water dome: "It will be flown on!" was also spoken for the sudeten-German flight enthusiasts at the time. For all the youths, enemies and difficulties to the trot they understood each other and pursued their task, for the idea of flight, for 18 long years tenaciously. The first fruits of this work could be harvested already in 1930 31. It was diligently trained, many young people were trained since then in flight. From the Akaflieg Prague of the Association of German Airplanes the students went apart again in all directions after graduation, but took something with them: Yhren desire to fly further! In this way, the Rannan mountain still attracts all the sudeten-German pilots in its spell. From far away, they come again and again to fly and see their old comrades of combat time. 2uf demt Naunarer Berg This comradeship was now the safest basis for the construction of an NSFK tower on Prague ground. When a new era began with the arrival of the leader at the Prague Castle, it was obvious that the Germans who had endured in Prague until March 1939 met for new work. The Fuhrer's words: "Everything is possible, you only have to want", gave the work the right momentum, so that the construction work, which was almost entirely in the hands of Ataflieger, went forward quickly. With the pilots, the storm also took over aircraft, so that the new tasks were solved without delay, which demanded the training of new pilots in particular, i.e. aircraft. The airlock then imposed forced the storm 18/40 to move its flight operations to the Sudetengau, and so the journeys to the Mecca of the Suddeten German pilots began again at the end of May 1939, after the Rannaver Berg near Laun, so that the construction work could be flown already six weeks after the attack. The Pentecostal camp 1939 with its own equipment lasted four days and brought an excellent result. At the same time, the Liniformation, which is carried out today, was carried out, when the Prague storm was put before a heavy task as a gathering point of many destitute students. 9