STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2384, sig. 109-12-29

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- 4 home will watch that your victims are not in vain, that you will not be as bitterly disappointed by the home as we are after 4 years of World War II. You will see the home again as you paint it in these most beautiful dreams, for this the sex of the #it war in the home country guarantees. This greets you especially deeply and asks you only to remain steadfast. Man can bear a lot of things. We already know it and you will still know it. Just hold out, you fellows of my homeland. You are, if you want, not the worst of the soldiers in the German army. Always bravery, sacrificial ability and personal courage was a mark of the sons of the Sudetenlahdes. Remember your fathers! Through 4 years of World War II, lo million Germans held 40 million foreign peoples of the former monarchy at the Ste Stange, alongside Germany's sons of heroes. You are the same blood with the same courage. Keep in mind that your fathers held by inferior conditions, although the struggles of the world war cannot be compared with the hardship of the struggle that you must endure, the care for the fighting lann in the Austrian army was also far from the care that makes the soldiers of the National Socialist state prosper the united nation; not to mention the leaders who lead you to battle and victory. Your fathers were not allowed to enter the homeland with victorious flags after all these years of sacrifice, but you will carry the proud banners into an overjoyed home after total victory. And this day we are looking forward to, I, You, Your father, Your mother, Your brother, Your sister and Your bride. Therefore with the guide through to victory ! Your Anton Böhm, Government Kommåssar. 1860