STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1840, sig. 109-5/68 (damaged)

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- 3 - 7 has the task of carrying out the spiritual exchange between Germany and Flanders, with its emphasis on the ideological orientation and human leadership in the sense of National Socialism. It addresses not only the members, but all circles of the Flemish people, in particular the entire work of Flemish organizations with German services of the NSDAP, their divisions and affiliated associations. Its work extends to the cultural, ethnic and social level. As a means of carrying out her task, she uses all the possibilities of spiritual exchange: the written and spoken word, image and film, music, exhibition and the like. President of the Deflag is W-group leader and general lieutenant of the Waffen-t B e r g e r . Propagandist activity of the deflag takes place according to the instructions of the Reich's Ministry of Propaganda. The function of the deflag as mediator between Deutscliland and Flanders is ensured by the fact that the representatives of all the highest Reich and party departments in question form the executive council. The deflage is divided into a German (in the Reich) and a Flemish sector (in Belgium), whose leader is a flame. The organisation of the deflag in Belgium already has more than 130 local groups. Its membership already reaches close to that of the national-Flemish party (the Flemish national federation (vnv). As an intermediate organisation, the deblag is not a party, but a pro-German popular movement. In its ranks there are representatives of all Flemish groups. There are close binduuges between the anticlerical, large-German and national oszielictically oriented Flemish « and the deflag, while the Grossdeutsche Wing of the VNV also