THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2426, sig. 109-12/71

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100 Four months of Wehrmacht tour in the south-east region - The old word "Inter arma silent musae" - "The muses are silent in the noise of weapons" - has lost all validity in the Great Germany. This is demonstrated by the many Wehrmach tours in the war on all fronts. According to the Führer's will, art should not remain silent in this most serious wartime, and especially not when the vision laughs are raging at the same time. Ste will then be like a prayer for victory that comes from the depths of our heart. As in February, J. Intendant Labatt from the Reichsdiensitelle of the NSG.-Power through joy". Berlin received the honorable order to perform a four-month Wehrmacht tour, beat our hearts higher and we were happy to be able to go back to our soldiers after the successful Wjnterspielzeit as in the previous years. After all the preliminaries for the Einsafz were completed. This time, the selected body of the game "Hilde und dte Miltion" was heading south-east in Marseh. We had a long journey ahead of us. But already the journey was made-the contact-with the soldiers. So we watch days and 3 nights, until we reached our first salty place. Dre Vorsprehe with the care officer gave us for many Toge our route and then we went by train by bus and on the sea way to the lonely positions Wic very much the Soldals in this foreign space, that the home came on visit, can hardly be described with Worlen. Even the most difficult problems to create a stage! In order to make a performance possible, yon dea soldiers were invited to play. Whether we were in a big theater or in a small guest hat room in a shooting range or in one cm blown rocks, our performances were conducted. After the performance, we were stei's guests of our soldiers, to whom we report on the sacrificial reverberation of the homeland. The soldier is also an art friend and nowhere is the conflict between artist and listener more intimate than at our field ditch. That is why every cultural designer knows what a responsible task he has to endure when he is deployed for the troop occupation. Remember that we have travelled well over 6000 km of Pahrt from this tour, often with almost 70o heat, and played it daily. If, however, these journeys have not remained without hardships. so every performance was carried out with the same joy of playing Was our commitment only a small thanks to our soldiers. German soldiers and delusional artists Defenders of the homeland and guardians of art! Tour guide of the Wehrmacht tour WILLI HACKE