English Translation

Excerpt from the "Neue Tag" of 22.3.1943, No.81. Ceremony for the Memorial Day at the Deutsche Opernhaus s zu Prag With a speech by Lt-Gen. Toussaint (LBM.) Prague, 21 March. honour our dead, then they stand in front- At the center of the celebrations for the hero's most important series as the witnesses of the highest deut- commemoration in Bohemia and Moravia stood scourily soldier-tug. Their actions will continue - the ceremony at the Deutsche Opernhaus live over time and space. The Wehrmacht to Prague, which was empowered by the Wehrmascht commander, concluded with the words: "We honour the fallen heroes of Prague, Major General of Briesen, and we honor also, and in addition to many those to whom the war imposes the heavy test on leading representatives of the party, state, to bear the loss of a beloved man Wehrman, the German Red Cross. They, too, must have a heroic heart and the Reichsarbeitsdienst, among other things, in order to have the courage to do so: Under-Secretary of State 4-Group Leader K. H. Sacrifice in the transfiguring sense and without Er- Frank, Mrs Heydrich, to carry the Wehrmacht mandate. We are inclined to the powerful mothers, sisters and women of all habers in the Wehrkreis Bohemia and Moravia, layers of the German people. The dead lieutenant general Toussaint, head of the Gauamt, do not demand from us any great words about the Schulte-Schomburg from the party union glorification of their sacrifice, they brought it to the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and of course. They demand from us Moravia, the commander of the order police, but the deeds which gave their victim the highest mark at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravian sense and the last fulfillment. They, Lieutenant-General of the Police Force, who prepared for them of us the completion of the victory, the commander of the security police with them by the dedication of their lives the path Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. The leader of the German standart leader Dr. Weinmann, and the people always demanded only the sacrifices, the commanders of the arms-1⁄2 in Bohemia and unchangeably necessary. If he demands Moravia, -Brigadeführer and Generalmajor now our last and most sacrificial efforts, he does so in the Conscious of the weapons-f Count Pückler. that the time has come for the highest to stand in the vestibule of the opera house." Guards of honour of the army, of the air force, of arms and of the German police in memory of the dead rose up among those present from the squares. On their coats of arms they noticed greetings of high hand and to the sounds of the one high and highest awards for songs of the "good comrade" they thought of multiple probation in front of the enemy. That of the fallen. Then the music- large round of the auditorium was full corps the old fighting song of the movement "people come occupied with wounded soldiers, to the rifle", which today again received its deep relatives and survivors of the most false sense. With the honour of the leader, the delegation of all the members of the nation in Prague and the songs, members of members' commemoration in the Deutsche Opernhaus, political leaders, representatives of the German Red Cross and the wreath set-up in Sterbohol, Reichsarbeitsdienst, as well as numerous German people. The curtain was raised with a ceremonial wreath-laying in Prague. An impressive picture opened up to the participants of the ceremony- the Prague Cemetery of Honour in Sterbohol hour. Guided on a matt silver background. On the way to one of them, one saw a large Iron Fichtenhain, located in gold, memorial site of the Cross, flanked by two laurel wreaths, a guard of honor under the command of an officer. On which was taken with leaf plants and flowers. A double post of the army was decorated stage had raised flag bearers of the Army, the Luftwaffe, the weapons and the before the Schwerin monument, as German police set up. Just before 8 o'clock the participants in the wreath officers formed the honor guards arrived at the laying down. With the beginning of the field signs. In front of the flag bearers stood wreath laying, which also numerous Pragueers attended the music corps of the Wehrmacht commandant- Germans, presented the honor, which under the direction of Stabsmusikwachse the rifle, then joined as the first mini-master Reischke with a mourning march and serial conductor Danco at the memorial, to the song "Germany, holy word" which initiated the wrench of the Deputy Reichsprotek celebration. Then one spoke to the tors, chief group leader and General Iron Cross I class, to lay down the infantry chief of the police, Daluege. The commander of the Wehrmacht followed excellent sergeant of a Grenadier of Prague, Major General of Briesen, in the regiment words of the Führer, who each spoke to a representative of the Hee- , who was held by the Wermacht representative at the res, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine as a military protector and commander in order to transfer, on behalf of the German Wehrmcht circle of Bohemia and Moravia, Lieutenant General, to the Reichsprotector and Command Toussaint. The Wehrmacht- haber in the Wehrkreis Bohemia and Moravia, authorized, among other things, explained that no lieutenant general Toussaint with a great people of the earth throughout his history decorated with the signs of the Wehrenmacht time and again so compellingly to the fight for spring flowers wreath to honor the memory of those who died his borders and around his folkdom. On behalf of the NSDAP. As the German. Germany fought, head of the district Adam always laid down a wreath in defence for his existence. Further wrench followed. Even the political goals were not formed by the commander of the Füh-Ordnungspolizei by a excessive will of his Füth-Ordinungspolice at the Reichsprotector in Boehung. They have their unchangeable men and Moravia, lieutenant general of the police base in development and in the ranks, by the commander of the weapons conditions of the people and space. in Bohemia and Moravia, 4-Brigadeführer and you force us to fight this huge Major General of the Arms Count Pückler for scale, in which the fate of the present is determined by the weapons-f, by the circuit war leader and future generations. Prag-Pilsen, for the Nazi Reichskriegerbund, The Wehrmacht authorized officer then continued by the leader of the Arbeitsgaues XXXVIII, that the German people, despite his always chief labor leader Leitner, still so powerfully at work for the Reichs- jeopardized situation, by Gauamtleiter Ing. This is thanks only to his militants for the Nazi Reichskrieqssaferversorqung, through the spirit, who was always ready to take the victims Oberfeldführer Dr. P'eper for the state office, which requires his hard fate Bohemia and Moravia of the German Red. If the meaning of this day is to be fulfilled by the cross and by the inspector of the directorate, then our group General Eminger must turn to the heroes of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Stalingrad for the thought of the government and if we are to be Moravian today.