STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1776, sig. 109-5/4

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- 2 - far too small and too weak and so we entrusted our message to the leader and Reichskensler Adolf Hitler. We presented then the rubble of a state, which was created in 1919 as a dam, which should prevent the German development in the southern direction. In 1938, France and England removed this dam with a hand movement and turned their backs on the envious Czech people. At that time, the Czech man wrote in his bitter humour on fences on Prague's periphery: "The war is no more because the allies did not settle in." Memories of the days of disappointment are never a good bite, but always a powerful warning when it comes to putting the way into the morning. The fifteenth Mirz of 1939 was not only the worthy Czech answer to the betrayal of the West. The fifteenth Ager of 1939 is closely related to this, which inevitably followed and which the empire is now fighting with flying flags. Without the fifteenth Mirz there would have been no new Europe. It was strange hours when three years ago the radio broadcast reported that German units had entered the ground of our homeland. The Czech man longed for rest. Twenty years he did not sleep properly, twenty years he lived in sorrow. That is why a special kind of political co-operation had been introduced into the Czech people at that time, the calmness of the tiredness after the storm, the quietness that sets itself after the return from an unnecessary wrong path. The helmets of the German soldiers spoke to us on the fifteenth Mirz of 1939 the language all year-hundreds. Instead of boastful military missions from the West the engines carried the Czech people into the Prague streets protectors as we needed them in our need. At that time, we exchanged much more valuable values for fraudulent freedom on paper. Values that underpin national life. It was above all the social security of the empire, which allowed the instability of the democratic conjunctural and speculative