STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 373, sig. 109-4/118

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Letters, Dhie to the Achieved From the Front: Dear SS comrades! France,20.6.. For a long time I have not come to send you a sign of life.But now I want to use a few hours of rest.Since I wrote you the last time, so much has happened, the old /mist / order has been overturned and the story has come a long way. And all this I have been allowed to do in the front line! Although it was not always quite easy and still is, you do everything with joy and pleasure, because you know what it is about.About Luxenburg went on to Belgium and from there to France.One city, one village after another was taken and almost as fast as the persecutions now went on. On the one hand, it was wonderful to see the enthusiastic victims who were brought, on the other hand it was gruesome, these devastated villages, these crowds of dead, these, with the stench of decayed animals and with fire odour filled air, with dust and heat.And constantly the music of the grenades, bombs and machine guns. It had not been made for us, and that is why it is just so miraculous, this marching forward, because once again it has been proved that the superior leadership of our leader, whom we all think of here with warm love, and the outstanding achievements of the German soldiers have won this victory. An example of the difference between those and us. A cemetery on which there is an unknown Senegalese shooter next to the lieutenant-general from old French nobility. Now I want to close for this time and greet all comrades in the most cordial way. Heil Hitler! K.F. e From the work service: Dear SS comrades! For six weeks we have been enjoying the best educational school of life, the Reicharbeitsdienst. With different opinions and feelings, we had gone to Prague/about twenty Ss-Camers/, where we have to this day set up our camp. ......As SS men, who are accustomed to drills and man-breeding, from the very beginning we had an easier position than the other working men who are not at all in any organization of the party.In everything, whether in exercise, in sport or in political orientation, we always place our man and show that we have learned a lot and become useful for the future in the year we were part of the protectorate. H.H. e