STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393 Page 31 · 31 of 128
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393
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30 30 - 2 - of the time this President Roosevelt and Churchill told you in his speech in Edingburgh. However, whom you heard well, in their way also Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop and Goebbels told you also in their last pessimistic speeches. Aile their speeches were carried by this tone! 3. The whole European continent is in Germany's hands; the Russian enemy is still strong, but last winter we were just in the middle of a catastrophe. England and Anerika are getting stronger, but we hope that they will not be able to build a second front yet...(disturbation)... If someone is to starve in Europe, it will not be the German people, but the population of the occupied territories. The German people must prepare themselves for difficult times."Frankfurter Zeitung" in an article of recent times confirms this mood in the Reich, which also means a undecided peace for Dxutschland is a defeat. But the most important thing is: these speeches prove that the mutiny leaders have become afraid. They affirm continuously: The_German people believe in us, the German people trust une; they all know that it is about our national existence, about the kingdom, about our common existence. This struggle is about life and death for all of us. Understand these speeches well, dear friends! Witler no longer says that his empire will last a thousand years. He also no longer claims that he will soon win, that England will be occupied, that it can only take a few weeks until the decision. Göring no longer talks about the fact that no English flying stuff should dare over Germany, on the contrary, he admits that the English bombings are difficult. He, too, cannot stress enough that ea is about the existence of Germany. What a great change in the German speeches! One thing remains the same. The terror of the shootings, concentration camps, persecutions and repressions against the population of the occupied territories...(disturbation)... Such a picture presents you, on the anniversary of our national commemoration, Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and Ribbentrop themselves. I complement this picture, which the Germans have designed with some facts: by the end of August I942, the Reich has lost more than 4 million Sol data. The conditions in the German transport system are catastrophic and are becoming increasingly glitching. The supply situation of the German people is bad as at the end of the year 19l7. Italy, which stands at the close of its forces, plays the same role for the Reich as Habsburg in the world wars. The last winter campaign in Russia has brought the German army to the brink of exhaustion. The Germans themselves know this. If they do not go to the defensive war in the Östen, they split their last criteria completely. These visions and insoluble problems have given rise to disputes under the German leadership Anlase. Göring opposed an offensive in the East, while Hitler from propagandist