GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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780 - 58 - God bless you and protect you. I beg you, be very careful, so that they do not catch you, there are spies everywhere. To the question, to whom in their opinion I can trust, whether the city councillor Ludvik is the appropriate person in this direction, both answered: Certainly. He is a patriot and an unmistakeable worker, the only one here who can pass on something similar to that to the relevant places." Karl Steiger is concerned that this message may go through the Bohemian Ideas, to faithful souls and hearts, in order to fill with faith and strength to fight and firmness in the decision "to endure to the end" faithful souls or hearts. And Steiger visits a small company of friends in Domalschlitz and late at night, when he goes home, he takes the mayor Ludvik by the side and rzielt iha, the not a little mirstunten, everything he has on his heart. He tells of the 'foreign revolution', by Masaryk unl adds: "Johann, You are one of the very few people I have trusted to share this important message with, and not perhaps because I am telling you something interesting, but because I believe in Your character, in Your Fatherland, and I ask You to inform them that you have the fate of your people in your hands. Be firm, don't leave a footprint wide behind, the Ze: t.the redemption of the Czech people is near. However, you ask and are expected to scare off Eucl. by nothing, not even by promise: ngen be enticed, and if you do so, you will be strengthened by the activity of the foreign outside. You measure Fueh as Jetragen and act as it will only be possible for those who will solve the Czech question to be convinced that the Czech people have resisted German-Austrian politics. Throughout this conversation, Mr. Mayor held me with one hand under his arm, with the second he held me by the hand, which he pressed constantly and said every moment with a low voice: God bless you! Oh, that God there would be that you succeed in this work, be sure that I will strive to beat as much as possible. Karl, You have given me a very beautiful example, I am proud of Your friendship. God protect You, so that You may escape every danger and return happily to Your Heinat." Behold, here are those sources of strength, from which also October 28th was strengthened. At that time passed through the underground lands of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia the - 59 -