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

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National Wednesday 15.I.1941. 3f The end of one legend. (r) In the Saturday issue of our paper, we published the essential content of an article by the secretary K. H. Frank, who, in the journal Böhmen und Mähren, gave a clear and clear German opinion on the legend artificially formed, the subject of which was the Czechoslovak Legion of World War II. In this respect, we immediately expressed our position, which we are discussing today, because it is a matter of paramount importance for the whole Czech nation. In particular, it must be stated that the legion-glorious idea was a heavy burden for the Czech national life since World War II. It was mainly an obstacle to the rational adjustment of the Czech nation's coexistence with members of the German nation, because legionary organizations were carriers of the anti-German concept that Dr. Beneš put into the cradle of the former state. In addition to this destructive and disruptive activity on the ideological side, legionaries applied economic selfishness of the roughest grain. So-bivce led to the consequences of really gro-thick: they were not except legionnaires in public services, which at 36 years of age were counted into the service of 34 years. Thus, for years, lost - open play in children's dresses was many-hero counted fully into the procedure as a quality work of an adult. Legionists skipped-vali in public service cheerfully their colleagues nonlegionáre. Also in the economy managed to apply themselves as a highly influential handle. Once again, it was the Legion's ardor, who had the largest share in the trade with the posse to occupy the smallest newsstands, had an important part in the film industry, in the arms industry and finally in the so-called land reform. Legions were placed in the leading positions of the respective companies. When it was occupied even in some fallen Lhota instead of a municipal watchman, it was always said in the respective audition that legionnaires preferred. Of course, such a procedure was you-bedroom antisocial and his immorality is still