STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 175, sig. 109-2/77

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88 The Reicis Protector in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, 24 October 1939. No. I 3 a 23117 To J a) the Office of the Lord Reich Protector a 11 1 " 11 State Secretary 11 Undersecretaries 2712 c) 11 11 d) Divisions I and II e) all groups f) the Commander of the Security Police g) "1 11 1 Order Police h) the Moravian Group in Brno i) the Oberlandraten j) the Wehrmacht authorised representative at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia Subject: 1, November l939 (All Saints' Day) and 9, November 1939 (Memorial Day of the Fallen of the Movement) According to the Act of 3 November 1939 in force in the Protectorate of Bohemia and the Moravians. 1 November is a public holiday in the eastern part of the Czechoslovak Republic S.d.G.u.V. No. 65/l925, as it is currently in force. This celebration is also celebrated as a public day in the Ostmark and Sudetengau, in accordance with the national laws which continue to apply in these matters this year. In particular, the services of the public authorities and institutions are closed. Since the reasons that apply to the celebration of this day as a holiday in the Ostmark and in the Sudetengau also for the Protectorate: Rat Böhmen and Moravia, I order that this day be celebrated by the rich's own authorities in the Protectorates of Bohemia and Moravia as a holidays. November 9 is a national holiday as a memorial day for the fallen of the movement in the entire Reichsgebiet, with the exception of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; it is also celebrated as such by the rich's own authorities in the Protectorates of Bohemiaand Moravia. Finally, I add to the clarification that the Reformation festival (October 3rd) which, according to the regulations in force in the Old Kingdom, is a holiday in municipalities with predominantly evangelical population, is by the rich's own authorities of the $\D3