STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5

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Issue E (Neiths edition) itung MS Aebeiterpartei traße 33, Rus 2638. Berliner Schriftlettung: SW 68, Charlottenstr. 82. onto Essen Nr. 2350. Subscription price by messengers balbmonthly RM 1,25, 3ost monthly RM 2,50 (including 24.70 Mpf. Bettungsgebübr), train price for countries with a reduced postal fee 2, 50 RM. and a higher postal fee of RM2,50, plus 2,10 RMs. by force majeure, etc., there is no right to supply above S. place of delivery and place of jurisdiction Essen. — 8. B. Bl. 21. The other legionaries h174 Prague, in Januat. Before the inner peace of the Greek soul stands the rebuke of certain moral fundamentals, which otherwise are generally obligatory valid, but which got in motion in the world war and caused damage like a train on a wrong track, in their natural starting position; thus sooner or later the division between the healthy natural structures of the people and the moral concepts, which were lifted from their base by Masaryt's slogan "Sochverrat is national obligation", came to an end and had a serious impact on the recent Czech history, because the Czech legionaries submitted themselves to their unsteadiness. The Legionnaire is the real object of that shifted moral concept, that is, the point of a clarifying debate, and this debate has now come into full swing following an attack by the Secretary of State Frank. The word legionary spans two poles, the virtue of sacrificial eating for his own people, as well as the popularity of the land servant for wages and prey. The opposite, for example, of the member of the Austrian Legion, who fought for his ideal in the Ostmark and went into the Reich only when all possibilities of action were exhausted and dungeons or gallows threatened, the opposite of this vo:a hetgr homeland-loving selfless belligerent is the homeless stumbling block, which sells itself to anyone as a foreign legionary, not because an ideal directs him, but because the adventure lodes him. The Ostmärker or the Sudeten- deutsche, who in the years before i938 evaded the Drud of a non-national regime, saved himself into the homeland of all Germans. The Czech, who passed from the fighting front as a deserting soldier to the 'enemy' during the World War, went into the foreign country, and not only this characteristic he carried together with the foreign legionary. He could not fight for his homeland. When the first Czech legion was formed in Russia in 1915, the allied forces did not yet think in the distant future of forming a Czech state after the war and of enlisting the Czech legions for it. The fact that such a state was created later on, happened without the slightest addition of the Le- gionaires, whose military performance is not mentioned at all in the works on the Melt war. On the Eastern front they once entered the front Austrian lines. It was a great success from today to tomorrow. German-Austrian regiments restored the situation after a few days. Czech intervention at Bachmach was even more unimportant. Nevertheless, the Czech legion left deep traces in Russia even without front-instance. State Secretary Frank lists them as follows: "It is not possible to embellish the methods of dishonesty and perfidiousness that have been demonstrably applied by the Czech legionaries in connection with the internal turmoil of Russia. Broken treaties, betrayal of Russian leaders, a chain of crimes of a purely criminal nature, enormous looting of the Russian country, unprecedented raw murders of Austrian war fans of German volts members accompanied the legion." Betrayal began, and Verraf continued. But the betrayal can be said here in general more than anywhere else, what Malter Elze in his presentation of the English dagger thrust geger den Prince Eugen in 1712 says: "Ieder Vertegt Ast a failure of the Serzen, a first in the interior, and Gu's innate urge to live frighten people before the Veyrat as before the murder; in personal life the memory of a horror and in the life of the peoples as a ignominy remains.