STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2595, sig. 109-12/243

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The Czechs did not yet realize how much the clock of world history had beaten for them and even then still pursued a policy directed against the Empire, so the step that had to follow was actually predetermined. One must know the following: The state estimate of the rest=Czecho=Slovakia for the year 1939, which was presented in December 1938 - two months after the integration of the Sudeten German territories into the Reich and after the loss of large parts of the territory to Hungary and Poland - still contains the sum of 1.4 billion kroner for military expenditure. (1938 , Mil=. It is also necessary to know that a huge arsenal of weapons and bombs was present here in the heart of Europe, and that there was a pabe Mie deo which the Czech military had at that time still beneficent. In the knowledge of these things, one will understand o that the leader could not tolerate the sharp-headed Dölch in the German body. Abe der dlfiei later on, using the example of Yugoslavia, one saw how a handful of defiant officers can drive a state into a completely carbide-pitoin insane war and thus destroy=. me frio 9038 tis miglced simgeiende Liebatiing bire hes 26 daubber. Chii f mby 13/77.43