English Translation

8 A b s c h r i f t d BeCpMWLOTaBDAReLSg MNESPETSRGS Ssdl "My dear friend! MS EOV A lot has changed since you stood among us for the first time. If I look at some Germans, then I always feel sorry for those who die on the fronts for Europe. Where has this enthusiasm come from, which was here at first? Where has security and determination remained? Why do you hear that even Germans with little chosen words scold about the war and often give the opponent justice? Also the Czechs, who work in the Reich, write about it and tell all their acquaintances about it during their holiday. It may be that it is often only harmless, meaningless words of bitterness. But what should a member of a small European people think about the German, who in the Protectorate sins against the spirit of the national socialist idea, even by deeds! A number of German officials fulfilled their tasks with seriousness and enthusiasm after the establishment of the Ptotektorat. You Germans have always been a model for us even in times of pseudo-democracy. Examples of sacrificial courage and human justice, you know that well. Many Czechs lost all confidence in the justice of the state leadership in the last time of the republic. We always believed that your official, as the representative of a new, more humanly just social direction, is the personification of all human virtues. Don't be evil,' but today it looks different. Often the same practices as 4 years ago and a sincere friend of your people hurts the heart when he hears that nothing should have changed. There is no doubt about the fact that many officials achon have given up in their discipline. They try to stand up well with the Czechs, who are able to do something. With them, some understand very well, who proudly wears the badge, yet he knows that these neimals are in agreement with the regime and undermine the authority of the empire. Where do we meet this most often? In circles of industrialists, merchants, trustees, banking insurance companies and in some respects also in military circles. If you look for the cause, you see that it is a decline in the discipline and moral responsibility of the individual. The higher naturally so placed in Weutscher, deto worse for the moral impact on the b.w.