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

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-39 - 22 Austria is lost ... Surrender and do not prolong the bloodshed. You will surrender! This awaits your family, your homeland from you, you will soon return from captivity to the liberated Czech countries. The more Czechs surrender, the better for you, for your family and for your homeland. More than 200.o0ó Chechnya Soldátes are free in Russian and Srbish captivity. The entire army corps of the Husitiscten Družina fights freely at the side of the Russians for the freedom of the Czech people. A whole Ragiment of Czechs fights in the French army. Hundreds are waiting for the convocation in England. You will save your lives for a better future. All suffering will turn into joyful expectation. Think of Eura's relatives, your mothers, Schwestarn, Beloved, Sons and Daughters .., Do not let them call you: 'Don't shoot!' And all the people cry to you: "Do not shoot, surrender!" The Italians are fighting for the Czech cause, because the destruction of Austria is the resurrection of the Czech people. We, the foreign chicks, are calling you: In the 5oo. Commemorative year of the death of Hus in the interest of your own self and the Czech people, Fuch surrenders and does not shoot at Eura Liberator ... Think of di glorraich: Goneness - and builds on the happiness of the future. The Foreign Chechens," - This ardent leaflet to the Czech soldiers, the Italian government refused us to spread on the Italian front, and we had to use the Allied Committee and the printing of London to ensure that it was allowed. The work was not easy, very often we had to work with the Alliistert straitan in the true sense of the word so that sis helped us. From what you at least learn to know the most urgent, so that you might come to the realization that besides what you have read in the time below, much happened, was not yet spoken and one does not know much about it. The Allies already gave us certain promises in the Jatre 19l5. On this the inscriptions have been received.