STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2084, sig. 109-7/91

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English Translation

German boy! The 4 turns to you with this writing, to our young front line of tomorrow. You shall be made even more familiar with the spirit that animated the weapons-4y, with the leadership, the construction, the armament and the arming of those troops, which are particularly close to the leader and have a proud share in the German victories in the West and East, in the North and South. You know that being a soldier is the duty of every person to be a soldier. But those young Germans, who stand above their comrades in attitude and character, want to be more than soldiers; they do not want to wait until they are drafted, they want to fight as volunteers. The special tasks of the protective squads force to apply the unchangeable laws of selection and to con- tinue the most valuable forces for those. The young German is supposed to undergo the aptitude examination, whether it is suitable for 4 hours and health for the weapons-4. If rejected, there are still many possibilities to make use of the nation to the full. It has often been said that the men of the weapons 4 are special pushers. This is true, but never in the sense that the use of weapons - no pre-careful planning and superior leadership would be based. The leaders of weapons-bh are consistently hundreds of times tested, experienced and trained men. Losses of weapons-4 correspond to the hardness of the operation, but are in percentage no higher and no lower than those of other associations of the army. If you follow the call of the Arms-4y and join the great front of the 4y divisions as a volunteer, you will be a member of a troupe that is focused from the very beginning on special achievements, which will also develop a camaraderie of special depth. You will be the bearer of weapons in a troop that includes the most valuable forces of the young German generation. In addition, you are particularly connected with the Nazi world view. Your comrades come from all German Gauen and the people's German territories. In their ideological expansion, the weapons-4 also includes the volunteers of the Germanic countries. This military community with the G comrades from Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and Flanders and the volunteers from Finland is a great contribution to the realization of that new community of fate in Europe, whose champion, carrier and core force the 4 has made itself. The youth of the National Socialist Empire knows that it must strive for itself in order to be able to perform its military service in the arms-y. That 4