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

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- 2 - 3 The Holy Faith in the Power of Providence has always overcome difficult times, and the cool mind and unbridled will have enabled the leadership to master the leadership soberly. From a historical point of view, March 1939 is not only the fulfilment of the wishes of the German heart, but soberly and rationally the real completion of a political necessity. The great war that we are witnessing now is the life-defining struggle for the survival of Great Germany and Europe. Thus, politically, economically and humanly, precisely because of its necessary sacrifices and burdens as a melting pot, it will help to deepen and complete the final growth of this space into the Reich. Thus today, politically speaking, is a day of grateful and respectful remembrance of those 15.3.1939, who created the foundation and the beginning for that development and those tasks, which we are willing together with the inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia to advance in the sense of the empire and to complete according to the instructions of the leader. But this day, in its connection with the idea of heroism, contains a human obligation for each and every one of us. Those fallen comrades, through the dedication of their lives, have sent a binding warning to us living, tirelessly standing up to our husband in the moments and times of militant and emotional stress and bravely overcoming the small burdens of the homely everyday life. In many people's hearts, the treacherous melancholy creeps in once. It is precisely then that, in the thought of our heroes and in the belief in our beloved leader, we must find the inner strength of ourselves over and over again, using all forces for victory, for the leader and for Germany.