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

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Division IV - Grüppe Rundfunk Strictly confidential! Broadcasting service. Only for personal use! To be destroyed under own responsibility 3541/42! (§ 353 c RSTGB!) Test No.:.........?. Reports of 19.Dec. 1942. London (18.30 o'clock, Czech): North Africa: The persecution of Rommel's defeated army continues. The British 8th Army is located with its vanguard l50 km off Tripoli. Oetfront: The Deutechen suffered veter defeats when they contaminate to bring help to the army trapped between Volga and Don. The war in the Far East: British troops have crossed the border of Burma. iN The following memoirs in Holpand and Sweden tav $\V{21. ab1 15 Aildaten Talks with the homeland: 2M "In his speech yesterday President Beneè called on the tschs homeland to maintain solidarity and to support the great offensive of the Allies by united action and united resistance actions. "Above all," explained Be- neà, "it is necessary that the Czech workers in the Reich become aware of their important position and, through their arre- ness, contribute to shorten the war. Any slowing down of work, any delay in traneport, any loosened screw help win the war." You must prepare yourself today for the eve and the day of the final collapse of Germany! Since it is necessary for all Slavs working in Germany, whether they are Czechs, Slovaks, Poles or Yugoslavs, to hold together and to harm the torment by their own actions!" "You now hear the authorised"Yugoslavian envoy at techsl. It was in those days of 1941, when I called on the chairman of the government of the Yugoslavia to make him aware of the danger that threatened our fatherland, but all my ideas were rejected as unstoppable and I was flattered that Yugoslavia could sleep calmly, because it did not threaten him with the slightest danger...Sturret, ..Then, however, the events were right for me. But in spite of these circumstances, a people must not give up. Our people have their lives and their blossoms ahead of them. Therefore, it is necessary to take a firm position on the facts and to be prepared to give up their lives for the good of the country. Every sacrifice brought in this sense is brought for the future of the nation and of humanity. From such heroic deeds the young generation draws the strength to assert itself in struggles for the nation's rights of life.....