STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391

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115 -16 crimes, for which not only he, but also all those who helped will have to pay for it. The Czech-Slovak people will never forget this. By an exchange of notes between Daladier and Osusky was recognized by the French government of today's Czech-slovak National Committee. It is his task to renew the Czecho-Slovak army according to the Czechoslovak laws. Vir are now in war with the German Reich, Our task is to free the Czechoslovakian Republic from the violent German yoke, We go resolutely into this struggle. Our determination destroys all obstacles and all enemies. 18. November 1939 Hell-lleldung, Reuter aue London: The Copenhagen Zorrespondent of the Daily Telegraph reports, since after there arrived reports 5ooo Nazi-Gardists on motorcycles and tank cars with ma-saw rifles and Peldartillerie moved in to Prague on Friday morning. These reports mention serious riots in Czechoslovakia, which led Germany to step up the armed forces supporting the rearrangement of the inner Ozdaung in the Protectorate. Kor egondent adds that the motorized columns have carried out further huiderte of arrests among Czech students and patriots. Hell-eldangr-Havas from Berne: Especially in the Augenbliok, where the execution of nine Czech patriotic heroes is carried out, the deutspkà Propaganda spreads an article of the Lidové Koviny, which appears under German supervision, in which it is, among other things, heiast: "Czech interests have found their natural framework in German Lebeneraun." One could not say it better and more contemporary. Hell-Meldung von der oesterreichischen Grenze, Havas: In the next time Bohemia and Moravia should definitely be assimilated to the empire, This is the secret slogan, which is gradually being realized by the German protectorate authorities. In the economy German commissioners replace Jewish part ownership and the Czech staff is replaced by Germans au the