A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2183, sig. 109-9/7

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V2 1/28 b**+* *0*x* 0rr0nf**0* * z*=7 Rela t@n Taglder sehutsstaffelin Prague on 27 January 1940 Staffelminner, comrades! For the first time, units of our protection squadrons have started to appeal. I have ordered you here from all parts of the new Eichsland to the capital to keep an eye on the formation of the movement which, as an armed arm of the party, received special engulfment from the leader. We have set up and clothed an SS standard in Bohemia and a second standard in Mhren since the day when the Führer stayed at the castle. We have also trained the men and carried out special technical and protective tasks in the period of cobilization, as well as in the previous war monsters. Thank you all, comrades, for the work you have done. At the same time, the time of the preparatory work comes to a certain conclusion from today's appeal. Today, however, it is also a start and the end to new and even higher duties. As until now a large angahl of our SS-comrades has swapped the black skirt of the protector with the feldgramen, so you are ready in the coming days, Vochen and Nonaten every kinute, to exchange the black coat ait the field grey of the Wehrmacht or our Saffeen-SS, in order to fight with the weapon in the hand in the fields and to win for the leader the kingdom. Thirdly, today is given a special dout- ical significance by Ss-linnar's appeal to the historic Old Town Square in Prague, a site which, in the past, repeatedly bears witness to the enormous, bi-