STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, INV. 61, Sig. 109-1/67

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45 000 members of the artistic staff were released for the Wehrmacht and the Armaments, plus the technical staff, which has to be counted roughly equally. It is natural that all these measures have also had an impact in the authorities. As far as subjects are no longer dealt with, the workers of the Wehrmacht and Armor are made available. The 60-hour week, for many workmates a long familiar term, is generally introduced and frees further forces. Holiday is no longer granted until further notice. Everyone strives to work as unbureaucratic as possible; the telephone must sometimes be used. This is the picture of the total use of war; the general situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is the subject of an article by the Prime Minister of the State Frank, which we print below. Moreover, we will continue to do our duty. We believe in the Führer, we believe in you, comrades, for now it is more important than ever: the flag up, the rows close closed! o The homeland greets you and wishes you soldiers luck! SELOIMIEC iopiliale siboizle saio DTSVE 9 Pkolinilogedbion "The New Day g" of 9. 9. 1944. S081 dara K.H.Frank EINWORDSURSTUNDE Z feten der Anforderungen waren jeder Zeiten der Berprüfung. This applies to the life of the individual as well as to the fate of the peoples. Principles, and which were formed in times of peace and quiet, experience their testing in the struggle. The more revolutionary these principles are, the harder their testing is, the more difficult the struggle, the greater the victory. The rightness and historical necessity of an idea is not dependent on the immediate success of its internal value and faith. I am hardening the present military socialist idea, but rather on it for a new European beginnings after a few setbacks thanks to the power of its idea to