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

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st -6- 25.12.1940. L o n d o n - Czech. Christmas wish of a Major of the čel. General Staff: It is today the most beautiful day of the year - nights! We spend these days in the most wonderful England, Kxk where we have been received so warmly and where we are believed! Nevertheless our souls weep because we are so far from you! But our hearts reside in the homeland, our expensive CSR. We want to push the mother, the woman, the children to the heart, we want to squeeze the hand of the father, brother and friend! Our hearts are in Prague, in Moravia, in the Tatras and in the Carpathians. We also think of you countrymen in America, in Balkans, in Bilivia, in Volhynia France, in Far East and all over the world. All Czechoslova ken the soldiers in England wink that they will experience in health the victorious end of this war! We wish that we in our beautiful homeland all together will sing our anthem freely! 26.12.1940. .. The chairman of the Canadian government explained that a Canadian army corps would be formed in England more and more: From Christmas this year, a Canadian Army corps will exist in Englane, this is proof of Canada's ever-growing war effort. ..• From Iyon it is reported that a large explosion occurred in Milan in a refugee camp, 4 people were killed and 5 seriously wounded. Polemic with the address of Gen. Field Marshal v. Brauchitsch... He explained that the channel would not be an obstacle either. But these threats no longer impress. Hess also used auxiliaries to make the chriot child a Nazi spectator in his speech. However, no one here is afraid of Davot. England does not underestimate the strength of the Nazi specter and is also convinced that a Jnvasiöns attempt can occur. But England is probably prepared for this. Trust in the victory, which in the messages of the brit. President. — I call the Group of the European People's Party (ChristianDemocratic Group). Political weekly overview of the events in Prankreich: The Germans long exceed the agreements of the ceasefire. They only wait until France will be fully affiliated. Pétain knew the German plans and knew that Laval was ready for anything. France should participate in the war against England. But the people do not participate there. Likewise the army. The British victory in Africa has fundamentally changed the opinion of the French military over the British army. The bravery of the Binzelnen was doubted. However, the French officers had a traditional doubt about the abilities of the British Generel Staff. Now they were retuned by the brilliant action in Egypt. ....... The representative of the People's League of Germans abroad, Lührmann?, explained to the Germans in Slovakia: Jhr Germans do not feel like being moved to the Baltic Germans, because Jhr already lives in the Reich! These fears are not only the Baltic Germans. -7-