STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 401, sig. 109-4/146 (damaged)

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People's Newspapers 12.I.1941. The German authorities are constantly running out of infinite number of entries from the circles of the Czech population, filing and reporting, all-all with basic tendencies: ©Most Czech nations would be relieved if the legionnaires' actions were done unfairly, shielding light, and if the end of the protection economy were made. © The established Protectorate was not removed by the status of legionners. Even the state-police dissolution of legionnaires did not destroy the activities of most legionns, which are so harmful especially to the Czech nation. We know that they continue to act on the day in their act-ness, the lights seeming that legionnaires are no-sitters snipped with propaganda Reich hostile, because they are constant on the waves of ether in conjunction with enemy radio, we know them - their destructive work and their influence on the Czech nation. As long as they continue their work, there will be no constructive cooperation with Reich. Their exclusion from public life and their exclusion from the life of the Czech nation must not and cannot be felt as a persecution of Czech patriotism. It is completely wrong if in certain Czech circles it is claimed that the concept of legion is to some extent identical to that of Czech nationalism. I think that I have sufficiently demonstrated the behavior and position of Czech legionnaires, German-com hostile and antisocial, so that I can say that for us it does not mean the same thing as rejecting and persecution of the real Czech national feeling. The Czech legionnaire idea may, of course, be regarded as an expression of advanced nationalism, but only at a time when the non-free historical image of Palacký and these Ma- sarykova and Benešov, constructed in a field-tically air-empty space, was dominated by the Czech nation and was recognized by it. The time that in the fight of the Czechs against Germany saw the fateful mission of this nation, which was definitely past. The Czech-Slovak Republic was founded from this myth in 1918. However, this state had to fall apart because the idea was wrong. Today it is high time that in-teaming circles - as the Shi-year layers of the Czech nation had already done - knew to what extent the epoch 1918-39 was a faulty development and led almost to the demise of the Bohemian family. In those Czech circles it must also be recognised that this faulty development has only been corrected by the Führer's intervention in favour of an organic solution, proven historical - me examples. If we are now still assured that the Czech nation adapts its inner thinking in its broadest circles of this natural external repair of history, then in the order of this, there can be no place in the new Czech homeland - no place for the spiritual foundations of the past faulty development. Legionism is seen as a no-development kazimir, not in a bitter memory. On some opponent during World War II, but for the proven and promulgated continuation of legionary ideology in the Protectorate! These lines were written not to mortify old wounds, but to see why legionaries are a misfortune of the Czechs and that this is the case. Because, as eternal instigators of restlessness in the interests of a completely irrational thing that will no longer be valuable and valid, disturbs the over-walking peace in the new Risa and in the New Europe. For this reason, they have become unbearable for all the bu- Tutoring.