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

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- 5 - The czech people would wander through the devastated country today, enveloped and embroiled in hunger. Throughout Europe, there would be no more miserable people than the Czech people, destroyed by a crazy policy of unaccountable leaders. But Providence was no less attentive to the Czech people than to watch and watch over the great German people. Munich today smashed Benesch's plans for an anti-German war, which was to destroy the Bohemian countries. And then came March 15, where the President Dr. Hácha Böhmen has once again integrated into the Fate Association of the Great German Empire, in which we have already lived for a thousand years satisfied and in whom we have become one of the most cultural peoples of Europe. We owe Czech culture neither to the chaotic misborn East, nor to the sinking West, but to our own boldness, which reached for the German culture as the closest and most closely related to us. A review of the past three years makes us see in all clarity how each of these years has scared away the gloomy shadows of one of the decades gone by. The Czech people awaken to a new, truthful life. It abandons the pathetic selfishness with which it has allied the mischievous politics of the Jewish community of the West. Every day, the Czech people become increasingly aware of the greatness and historical significance of the action of the President Dr. Hácha. We are a people in the midst of Europe, to whom only a weak echo of this great war comes, a people who have the ability to work in accordance with his powers and abilities on the great construction work under the leadership of the greatest man in German history. We stand at the threshold of new great events, which will be the summit of the current European struggle. The Czech man, who has grasped the destiny of the Bohemian countries with the Great German Empire, stands with his whole soul and his general thinking to the magnificent German soldiers, who protect the Bohemians countries, who already for the third year