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

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09 Tee00ot .9 Kleine kulturpolitische Nachrichten vom 15. Januar 1941. A-Zet: "Die Legionärfrage". The article mentions that a detailed extract of the article of the Secretary of State K.H. Frank from the magazine "Böhmen und Mähren" has already been brought and continues: "sorum is it? In particular, to command the individual persons from the ranks of the legionaries who have risen to the foremost positions in the former state and who have remained on them also under the changed conditions of state law in order to prevent them from continuing to be an obstacle to Czech-German understanding. It is also a question of abandoning the further spread of the Legionnaire spirit and the Legionenaire legend in the nation. From the article of the Secretary of State it can be seen that the removal of the legionary influence from public life is above all those antisocial phenomena which were frequently criticized immediately after the war. This legionary clique, which had borne a post-war conjunk Wnz summit, did not want to defy its elevated position and already by insisting on it, created a wall between both nations, which, by mediation of their responsible representatives, had reached the hand for reconciliation and cooperation. This made the situation of the Czech people much more difficult. In these circles the centrum and the spread of whisper propaganda are seen, in these circles it has also the majority of Jewish friends and they also form a bastion of the old party system, which the new political parties