STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2603, sig. 109-12/251

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n G. -2- . S1. 20. 3. 43 České Slovo: A murder of the GPU in Bohemia ? This case of an exceptionally crude murder committed by an illegal terrorist communist group is very instructive. Perhaps he will finally open the eyes of many of those forever unteachable people who still do not want to become aware of the greatness of the Bolshevik danger that threatens us too. Bolshevism knows no regard for its own nation, as the case of the Coslauer murder proves. Perhaps many "seemed unbelievable the description of the horror that the members of the Reichswehr had encountered in their campaign against Bolshevism. In the case of Koslau they can best learn that these reports are absolutely truthful. The bloodlust of the Bolsheviks, which was so horrendous in the Baltic States, where hundreds of thousands of people became victims of blood terror, was expressed in a murder committed by a member of an illegal communist group against a second relative. The murder of Kolčava is also a proof of how the fate of reckless people ends, which can be enticed by communist slogans and in reality have no idea of what means the Bolsheviks achieve their goals. In the fur of Koslau's murder a deterrent and shameful fact has to be taken into account. The murderer, after whom the police tried, was again kept hidden by the population. He was granted night camps and refuge. They were granted to him by people who had to be aware that they were guilty of a criminal act, all the more punishable by wars, where special regulations on such action impose a high penalty. They deserve to be duly punished. To all of us, the Coslau murder may be a strong reminder to tighten all our forces, that Communism will be destroyed once and for all. This task can only and only be fulfilled by the Wehrmacht of the Empire. It is therefore our duty to support the German soldier in the struggle, which is also a struggle for us, by means of the best work in the hinterland. For only the kingdom is the guarantee that we will never be able to ascend the throne of the Bolshevik terror lord (ijk) schaft.