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

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No.155 Stck.73 Abt.fif.Dt.m. Vot 2/ the 4 bridges stretched their arches over the abyss. Also at the rubble of the old Roman bridge we came before èei. Constantine was a Phoenician town founded, called Kartha, the city, and played a major role in the time of the Numian kings. Likewise later, called Cirta by the Romans, as the largest city. of the military area of the III. Legion. It received its current name from Konstantin the Great, who had it rebuilt as Constantina from the rubble. The small river at the bottom of the gorge disappears towards the end to almost 300 m long in huge caves. Small dropstones, most popular cascades, a wonderful reflection of daylight enchanted the bare rocks in a splendour that easily echoed the wonders of the Moravian karst. This evening there was much to tell. We had taken in the beauty and gigantic size of what was happening, but the poster had awakened memories, the threads were moving from Africa to our homeland and a quiet longing, in which the uncertainty about the next future lay still. We knew that our journey to the end would lead us into the decision-making struggle of our homeland, which should bring her the long-awaited freedom, only our thoughts could pass freely and unpunishedly across borders and see themselves as free Germans among free Germans.