THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 310, sig. 110-4/156

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4 56 Elz. R., the former minister of transport, was to be distinguished this year, occasionally Hitler's birthday, with the party's Golden Medal of Honor. When he asked Hitler whether he could accept this award, if he remained a faithful Catholic, the chancellor told him that he had to know it himself. At that time, Elz R. the Order and was immediately dismissed from the service and nevertheless he had been a member of the Party from the beginning and since sdil the takeover of Hitler's government minister, and he was celebrated as a German, who with his ll children gives a good example to the whole people, he was granted the pension and all state revenues stopped. ( This was communicated to me by a relative of the minister mentioned.) c) Military affairs. My friend, who was born in 1897, was checked on Monday, June 7 at the survey, where the state of health and military capabilities, including older years, were examined. In the design, all those present were warned that it was completely forbidden to talk about the design process, even if the newspapers were rebuked by it, because the publication in the time periods and the type of publication of the propaganda served, while every binzelne was simply obliged to remain silent about all military matters. The reference to a foreigner on military matters will be punished as a high treason. When the speaker asked another person on the other day (stage l9o4) whether he would go to the pattern, the answer was that he had not yet been in the new pattern, but had come to terms with the understanding that he would be coming in the next week. The reserve doctors in the Charité were handed in on Monday, May 3rd, d.i. on the day of the government consultation on the incident of the bombing of Germany, so-called "mobilization cards" and until the departure of the speaker from Berlin these cards were not taken away. Prague, on June 12th 1937.