STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 275, sig. 109-4/17

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erY Deutschlan Ae only from the ambush. They put them in the concentration camps , tortured them and killed them. However, they did not openly declare that they were taking action against the legionaries. Mr. Neurath seems to be the Czech people not yet yielding enough, not yet sufficiently educated to the thought of retiring, not enough willing to give in to the preservation of the national soul. He is quite right, the czech people did not give up, and will not surrender. But the Germans do not want to admit who the culprits are of this resistance of the people. They discovered in the Legionariesetts today the guilty, about this already have a whole series of proofs, but only today the Germans dare to openly accuse the legionaries. Mr. Frank, there is no title Legionnaire with us, there are no Legionnarian castes. All the people are Legionnaries and stand against you. Never before did the Czech people feel as one as today. Today every child is raised in the legionian spirit, every woman and every man is Legionnary. You, Franks, Neuraths, Hitlers and Henleins, have accomplished this wonder. Mr. Frank attacks us legionaries and wants to eliminate us. It was always the misfortune of the Germans that they were not psychologists. They will persecute the legionaires, exclude them from their homes, they cannot drive them out of the hearts of the people. I wish the Germans could see how our old legionnaires are now comatose with their grown-up sons, and to do service in the csl. army in England. Mr. Frank says that the persecution of the legi- naries does not mean at the same time the pursuit of all vet erlandic feelings. What is a fatherland feeling for you? It is said to be a high word, which will never disappear from the national soz. word huch. The legionaries have never played a political role in the 2o Jahz public, they v citizens, stood in their place, did not have any respect for legionnaireship at une was no pactor in the fight and the I. The legationaries have been reluctant in this sense, that this was even to the shame of the country, to join in the one wish, so that the czech, Sad state would be just and accessible. I think political. Legacy has prepared the people so that ; examination survives. In our people there are now many legioniries, and I am convinced that there is in the Slow