STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 683, sig. 109-4/431

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- 11 - VV I do not want to close my acknowledging words without having thought especially of the Czech worker. The thanks of the Reich Protector apply to him before all. He has done good and clean work in the mines, in the large armaments, in other industry and in the traffic most beings. At the time of Reinhard Heydrich, the number of Czech workers has already looked up with confidence to the representative of the empire and seen in the socialist Heydric the guarantor for their rights. Even if victory is won, the Czech worker is the first to feel the blessings of National Socialism and the social reorganization. To sum up, a large part of the Czech people have understood the true meaning of their history and the law of life of this area in the midst of the German people and the Reich, and since the outbreak of war they have also recognized the hard war necessities and need to live and act accordingly, these Czechs have learned that the most difficult work in the mine, on the machine, behind the plough veit behind the fronts, seems easy and bearable even with the greatest limitation of individual liberties and human habitants of life, measured by the blood-customs of German soldiers, which the sons of the Germans have been on the front for more than three years.