STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1762, sig. 109-4/1517

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Copy! RP - 19 GEHEIM! 26 May 1943. British radio: "Call to the Czechoslovak farmers." Daventry GRR: 23.5.43, 7.1o clock, Czech. "Makes in the villages national committees". V To the Czech-Slovak peasants speaks the member loe of the State Council, Vaclav P a c a 1 (?): "It is May, the month of hard work on the Fel den. For whom are you now forced to work? For the German gentlemen, a handful of Nazis. For this your villages are cleared and German gangs of criminals settled there, your children wander into German slavery. But the snare around the throats of the Nazi gangsters is getting narrower and narrower. They are now seeking to instill fear in you by counting how you would be, if Russia and the Allies would win the war. They need the result of your work for the continuation of war. Therefore, Hr u b y promises premiums for the delivery of grain, beet, meat, milk, fat and all that the German vermin so urgently needs to prolong its rule, your suffering and the suffering of all subjugated peoples. The slave dealers have offered you for the beet 32.- crowns because they need sugar for the purchase of war material. The landowners will not allow the proceeds of their work to pay for the weapons to kill their brothers and liberators. They will ensure that the yield is as low as possible. The Nazis can neither command nature nor insects. I know that you help yourself and know how to protect the soil. The Czech farmer cannot be seduced by scraps of paper that are worthless. Landers, a great time demands great deeds. Close even closer in the national community and prepare for the time of final settlement with the occupiers.