Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 821, sig. 110-6/14

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English Translation

The Czech people, in their superior majority, appreciate the peace and order that has been maintained in more than five years of this great war thanks to the foresight of its President. It will not recklessly exchange the peace of its homeland with a bloody and hopeless struggle. Moreover, I have seen in recent months clearly how a political and economic chaos AE has occurred with the hostile armies everywhere in place of the order guaranteed by the empire. It has seen in the example of Warsaw how the interests of a small 2E people are left unscrupulously by England and even deliberately put at risk by the Soviets. It sees the fate of 1 Romania, Bulgaria's pun in Finland, threatening a people who surrenders to Bolshevism. And even if the English and American had the power and the will to protect the small peoples of Eastern and Central Europe from Bolshevism, it would not be possible; for their plutocratic methods are the best breeding ground for communism. What Bolshevik uprising means is now clear in neighbouring Slovakia, whose population is being inflated by aliens in London and Moscow, now only saved by German weapons aid from sinking into chaos. Every Czech, who loves his homeland and wants the best for his people and his family, goes in peace to his daily work and exhorts his fellow citizen to prudence and discipline. He knows that everyone who has his duty according to the orders of the government of the state piärmdshMoscow! American RMMN president Hacha had fulfilled, enjoyed the protection of the empire and that his performance would not be forgotten. He felt the advantage of the order ruling in the Protectorate despite all the burdens imposed on him by this war. He appreciated the safe, calm counter-measures against a completely uncertain future. He is aware that the slightest attempt at a violent transformation of the existing conditions would bring bloodshed, e only hunger pruning despair and endanger his family i in i their existence. However, the German people's comrade in Bohemia and Moravia must, in the awareness of the insoluble affiliation of these countries to the empire, be up to his special task right now. This includes attitude and performance. .The German population will meet this natural demand. It knows that security in the Protectorate is no less than in the rest of the Reich. and that it is under the special protection of the kingdom. She continues to know that, like any other empire, he or she would be defended against an enemy threat to the last man. With cool mind and hot heart 1, she will continue to pursue her German duty in faithful association.