STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 387, sig. 109-4/132

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to become a new Europe and a member of the great European national-socialist revolution. As a worker, who must earn his daily bread hard, I am aware of what a worker's word and workman's honor means!" The Deputy Reich Protector, W-Obergruppenführer, General Heydrich made himself during the explanations of the worker Zå stěra Anmer- kungen and responded to this at his rally very comprehensively and with the sincere openness of the soldier. Above all, he spoke acknowledgingly about the factory appeals eus carried out and stated that the representatives of the Czech workers were gladly allowed to interpret the workers' concerns and wishes for him; to whom he wanted to know what was troubling @n proper Czech workers in order to be able to help him in the sense of social justice. "We have to speak openly about good and bad things. That there is a certain need is nothing new, for war requires all limitations. "The Deputy Imperial Protector mentioned the conditions he had to meet in the Protectorate, he said that the Empire could not have allowed attempts to be made here in the hinterland, which meant nothing other than to fall in the back of the soldiers fighting against the Bolshevism in the East. He promised. to enable the Czech workers' representatives to convince themselves with their own eyes what it looked like during Bolshevism in Russia and what miserable conditions during Russian Bolshevikism were at the mercy of the working classes." You will then," explained the Deputy Imperial Protector, "know what luck the Bohemian and Moravian territory had, that it was spared by the intervention of the Reichswehrpower from the horrors of Bolshevim." •/