STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393

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- 2 - Jeiten. He explained that the own interests of the Czech people demanded that these floating practices be resolved in the future in such a way that the Sudeten Germans could never again be used by the Reich as a means of conquest. Ripka explained: We, without going into this question, never go over to the agenda, xixmstexzurxfage since most of our Germans have joined Hénleinism and Naziomus. So they are directly mitachuldig fir everything that was antagonized to us by the Reich and still becomes angetin. It is self-evident that vir daraue has drawn the necessary consegus, all culprits are punished in the most severe, equally valid, whether it is Germans, Czechs, Slovaks or Kerpatoruasen. For no one who supports Denlein cder Nazism, there is a place in the new republic. That is why it is a necessity, which already requires common sense, that this inclear relationship should once and for all be removed from the world. Dr, Ripka then explained on the subject "right of self-determination to the Vöiker" , this right never be misused in order to harm another people. Dr. Ripka spoke about the resistance of the Czech people in the homeland, declaring all efforts and progress of Dr. Benesch's politics could not have the actual results abroad if these efforts were not supported by the heroic resistance of Czech people. For if they should collapse, then all the efforts of the Czech foreign government would be in vain. Therefore, he expresses his greatest thanks to the Czech people for their heroic and courageous attitude." State Councils in London", Generelmajor Rudolf Smetúnka, about the conditions in the German generality: Brings inheltlichdine criticism of the German army leadership. The Pührer (who is referred to as the "free" Hitler,y vird of military diletantism accuses UL2 lecture on the German eyes to the "exploited" countries. (On the basis of messages from a Swiss newspaper, which was not mentioned in detail.) "Open the Czech universities again! If the Nazis do not make the Czech people believe that they must not believe their leaders, then the Czech universities must be reopened around mid-November. The Czech people demand with all determination and with the greatest Nachdnuchk from the protectorate government, which has been granted autonomy by the German leader, to deal with this matter more closely. At least this time, the Czech people devastate that the Nazi criminals will keep their word. The Czech people and the whole world are calling for the reopening of Czech schools!"