STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2386, sig. 109-12/31 (poškozeno) Page 41 · 41 of 20
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2386, sig. 109-12/31 (damaged)
English Translation
7. Prague, March 10, 1942. 1) Note. With regard to the political significance of Novak's statements about 4-Obergruppenführer Heydrich and myself, I consider the assessment of Blaha to be too mild. Completely out of place is the remark Geschke's, that this case is "tyyish for the fact that Germans from this space enter into things and are used by Czechs for self-interesting purposes, because they do not know the necessary distance to keep, but it is particularly typical that people from this area, after the local experiences, fall far more into the temptations of supposedly good-minded Czechs than the Reich Germans!" Apart from the fact, that Blaha is not at all out of this space, I have to guard myself because of my knowledge and experiences against this benevolence of Geschke.'s harshest. If you have learned to distinguish between real, i.e. genuine interpretations from this area and the so-called "New Germans", so one becomes what the real Germans have come to know, that they are far more cautious, suspicious, reserved and militant than the majority of the Reich Germans and that they fall far less for the seductions of supposedly good-minded Czechs than many domestic German officials who have had no idea of the popular struggle in Bohemia and Moravia until the establishment of the Protectorate. 2) -Standartenführer Geschke to the knowledge. 3) To the process.