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

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h/ - 3 - Imprison Hitler with his gang like crazy people or whether they should shoot him. Each of these people hopes that maybe not everything is lost yet, and that a victory in the East can save much- easy still everything. Hitler throws all his reserves to the front to fight with the power of despair. In addition, it is known throughout Germany that Italy is facing the war sehon and Mussolini has a very difficult position. The Nazi leaders put everything on the last card: they hope for a victory in Russia. If they succeed in conquering Moscow and Leningrad, they want to proclaim "greatly" that they are offering the peace through which they wish to secure the supremacy in Eastern and Central Europe for Germany. Up to now, Germany is still strong. Quisslingnatures are still working in Slovakia, Bulgaria, Norway, France, etc., which are appealing to Germany. The Czech is unchallenged and fearless towards the Gestapo and the German officials. No Czech believes in the victory of the Germans. The terror that reigns in our territories and in the other occupied territories is a sign of Germany's weakness. I give myself no illusions, I do not claim that Germany is already on the ground today. No, on the contrary, already in 1938 I knew how strong Germany was and issued the Sudetenland. I wrote to France and England already in l938 that this circumstance meant the early fall of Czechoslovakia and that the fall of many countries, including Prankreichs, would result in it. And as you can see, everything has arrived. And yet even then I expected the final pall of Germany. I went to England to meet preparations for war. I know that the German force is still very strong, that the german war machine works exactly. I also know that it will still cost us enormous sacrifices until Germany is finally on the ground. All these wars are a pole of Munich. The allies must continue to fight until the end. The fall of Germany is inevitable and closer than some politicians on both sides believe. The case of Germany must be carried out like a mathematical law. That is why Heydrich also uses these brutal terrorist measures. Our answer is this: We at home and the Czechoslovak - 4 -