STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2433, sig. 109-12/78

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58 20. December 1939. On 2 1. XII. 1939 SS-Hauptsturnführer Elmar Gabriel, Lager P i e s k e. Dear Gabriel! I am pleased that you, too, are among the dS leaders who were called to the troop service by order of the Reichsführers SS. The work that you were allowed to do in the construction of the protectorate will have opened your eyes to the needs in the struggle for popularism. I thank you for this work and will combine the wishes of the defenders in the protectory for a happy julfest and a victorious new year, to which I join in as soon as possible. JOTATHTTOH sS group leader. X{D 2. Z.d.A.