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

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11 - - 2 - of the time this President Roosevelt and Churchill told you in a very good speech in Edingburgh. However, if you have listened well, in their own way also Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop and Goebbels told you it in their last pessimistic speeches. All their speeches were carried by this tone! 3. The whole Europilic continent is in Germany's hands; however, the Russian enemy is still strong, in the last winter we were lnaop before a catastrophe. England and Aperika are becoming/atärker, but we hope that they are not yet able to build a second front..-(Görung)... If someone is to starve in Europe, it will not be the German people, but the people of the occupied territories. Dag German people must prepare themselves for difficult times."Frahkfurter Zeitung" confirms in an article of the last time this voice in the Reich that also a decided Priede for Drutachland is like a songlege, But the most important is: these speeches vey that the German leaders have become afraid. They keep saying: The German people believe in us, the German people trust us; you all know that it is about our national existence, about the kingdom, about our common existence. This Kempfe is about life and death for all of us. Understand these speeches well, dear friends! Gitlar no longer seems that his kingdom will last a thousand years. We no longer seek, that he will soon win, that Bngland will be occupied, that until the decision can only take a few Vochen. Göring no longer talks about, that no English flying stuff should dare about Germany, on the contrary, he admits, that the English bomb attacks are honest. Atich he cannot stress enough, that it is about the existence of Deutschlend. What a great change in the German speeches! One thing remains the same, however. The rerror of the shootings, the concentration camps, the persecutions and the repressions against the population of the occupied territories... (Störun ). Such a picture presents you, on the anniversary of our nationaque dedenken, Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and Ribbentrop themselves. I will add to this picture that the Germans have designed with some facts: by the end of August I942, the Reich has lost more than 4 million soldiers. The conditions in the German transport system are catastrophic and are becoming more and more severe, the supply situation of the German people is as cchlecht as at the end of the year l9l7.Italy, which stands at the close of its airs, plays the same role for the Reich as Habsburg in Veltkrieg. The last winter campaign in Ruesland has brought the German army to the brink of creation. The Germans themselves know this. If they do not go to the Defeneivlieg in the East, they split their last crags completely. These difficulties and insoluble problems have given rise to disputes under the German leadership Anlasa, Göring opposed an offensive in the east, feeding Hitler from propagandist