STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THING AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2476, sig. 109-12123 (damaged)

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No 155 Pc.7 Abt. fifDt...Vorg 6, i.e., return to the international arena, as provided for by the programme of the People's Front, in order to enable the Spaniards to remain masters in their own country, and thus do not have to defend themselves against a third party, French, united for peace." In addition to the illustrated brochure, it was called French: "This is the reproduction of the envelope of a brochure which Konrad H e n l e i n had sent to French personalities by his "lieutnant" Karl Hermann F r a n k." In their struggle against "ational socialism, against which some German empires were ever welcomed by the people's front in France, which they were given in their hands to damage the opponent and to their own often very necessary strengthening. This was also the case with this harmless nationality card. But we did not think of that at the time. We could hardly believe that here in North Africa, besides the name of Hitler, which surely everyone knew, politics was also driven with the names of the two leading Sudeten Germans. Was the call from the struggle of the Sudeten Germans against their disenfranchisement, the rebellion against the incorporation into Czechoslovakia, born only out of the will of the "victors" the struggle and name of the fighters, also forced here that the French, in order to strengthen the impression and credibility of their slogans, could cite names such as Konrad Henlein and Karl Hermann Frank? A proud and somehow victorious feeling became strong in us when we had read the poster that we had shown the importance of our struggle in all its size and breadth better than some experience at home. A walk through the Rhumel Gorge closed our stay in Constantine. If the impression had already been a more powerful one from above, then our astonishment increased even now, the gigantic high rising rock faces seemed almost overwhelming. The deeper we climbed, the bolder, the wilder the gorge became. At the top on the edge hung the houses, the walls were woolly sewn with bird nests, calm and safe ./