A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2355, sig. 109-11/157

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44 Security Service of the Reichsführer-4 Prag-Bubentsch, 23.6.1942 Sachsenweg SD-Leitsteil Prag telex 774-44 III B VA 3676 To the State Secretary at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia 4-Group Leader K.H. Fr a n k, DLJ da na ekalües boa Feop orence Pras. in Bohemia uad Mahcen. Eing.: 2 6.JUNI 1942 Betr.: Mährisch Nationale Sozial-Parbei, Brünn Requirement of self-employment for Moravia. Vorg.: Without. In recent meetings a special position for Moravia was repeatedly propagated by speakers of the Pitlik group on the grounds that the population in Moravia could by no means be referred to as Czech by its ethnicity. Pitlik himself stated in a meeting on 22.4.42 in Brno-Königsfeld, among other things: "Mehren can take an example to Norway. Slovakia had gone its own way and Moravia must also go a Moravian way.Even before there was a Bohemian princeship, the Great Moravian Empire had already existed. If one day the Reich asked the question of what had been done for the victory, Moravia would not be able to identify itself like Prague with a criminal record of the Eliáš followers."In his closing words to this collection, Pitlik demanded an immediate integration of Moravia into the Reich. Pitlik had recently again tried in writing to be received by 4-Obergruppenführer Heydrich and group leader Frank. Because the indifference of his concerns was known and his audition was considered irrelevant, this attempt was turned off by the news. TB-76./42 141 mem