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

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0Z - 2 - soon major operations, but we still hope that they will not succeed in building a second front in Western Europe. We cannot continue in our conquests, but we hope not to succumb to the present blockade in view of the great expansion of our occupied territory, and if anyone dies of hunger, it will be the peoples of the occupied countries and not the Germans. We are now going to ward off, since we are forced to wage only a defensive war from now on. We can no longer destroy the enemy, but it is at least about the (exclusion?) of a undecided war." That is the real meaning of these speeches, which with their veiled slogans the German people are to prepare for the coming bad times, ever catastrophic. Un the "Frankfurter Zeitung" of 12.l0. openly admits: "Even a undecided peace would be a victory for us and a defeat for England. He could save at least a certain part of our robbery in foreign countries for us." The most important thing, however, is that the German leaders end their speeches in this or that form with a fearful warning and fearful exhortations: "German people, stick to us, follow us! There is no other help anymore! Consider what a catastrophe it would be not only for us Nazis, but also for you and the German people at all, when we lose this war. It's all about our survival, it's about the kingdom, it is about the nation, it has to do with our common intercourse and death!" Listen well and understand, dear friends, all these words. This Berchtesgaden prophet no longer tells you that he is his party Germany and that his kingdom will last a thousand years. He no longer says that he has just given the order to take the final step, with which Russia will be the last deadly shock. He does not say any more that he will starve and occupy England in a short time. Nor does he say that the final victory is a question of a few stills. You do not even hear of Göring's promise that British planes will not appear at all about Germany - you only hear that the German army