STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2526, sig. 109-12/173 Page 15 · 15 of 20
A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2526, sig. 109-12/173
English Translation
-13-14 The Chancellor of the Reich insidious to give the impression that Czechoslovakia and President Beneš made it difficult to carry out the original request. Therefore, the Chancellor of Germany even declared that the question of whether war or peace is now in the hands of President Benes. This view is, of course, in stark contradiction to the knowledge and production that interprets not only the English, French and American pres- sions, but also the press of all countries that have an interest in the preservation of peace. We will not allow our nation to be crippled. From the statements of the Chancellor of the Reich that the German government will provide the Sudeten Germans with the free shark, if our government does not accept the demands of the German Government, one could read out an indirect threat. Despite this indirect threat, it seems that, even after today's declaration by the Chancellor of the Reich, there is still a further possibility that, in solving this question, the view of the Czechoslovak government, which agrees with the French and English governments, will prevail that the question of the Sudeten Germans cannot be solved by war, but by means of an agreement. If our nation is determined to the cruel sacrifices in the interest of this general peace, it certainly has a right to ask those to whose benefit it finally agreed to make this sacrifice - and to whom Germany belongs in the first place - that they also show complacency and restraint both in their claims and in their means in the solution of this entangled Prague. But if there were not enough understanding for such methods on the other hand, our unified, firmly established and determined nation would not bow to any threat." On the radio it is announced that the night on Monday at the border had been relatively quiet. Some raids of irregular gangs occurred from the German side, which were beaten back by the security organs with the help of military forces. Members of the Sudeten German Free Corps sneak disguised as Czechoslovak soldiers or border guards, close to the exposed posts and try to shoot them at close range. It is reported that from now on every member of the Sudeten German Preikorp who is found in a Czechoslovak uniform will be hanged as a traitor and coward in the place of his arrest. The use of the Üniformx of the Gegner is an act prohibited in international martial law, which has never been applied before. The German Memorandum "The memorandum of the Chancellor of the Reich Hitler was accepted in Prague on the condition that it was based on the principles of the English-French proposal of September 9, which had been agreed in Berchtesgaden and which the Czecho-Slovak government had adopted on the advice of the French and English friends, although it was the grave victim of the implementation of this proposal. She believed that through these victims she would secure the further free development of the Czechoslovak state and believed that she would receive the promised international geraniums. Annihilation of all life possibilities The closer examination of the new memorandum of Hitler clearly showed that this was not about the implementation of the close-