NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 367, sig. 110-4/213 Page 32 · 32 of 57
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 367, sig. 110-4213
English Translation
About Soviet Russia Martin has given little thought, probably starting from the production that the USl/ will speak the last word in all things. Great Britain does not play a special role in his considerations. Martin sees in Great Britain only one US base and starting point for the invasion, for which already 2 or 3 million men are ready (as well as more l0 million reserves in the USA). In the Czechs, Martin saw until his arrival in Prague only a people enslaved and exploited by Germany, who longed for his liberation. He was convinced that there was one: "underground movement" and even asked me about the possibility of connecting him to a "leather" of this opposition. I was already following these views at my first meeting with Martin on Tuesday, the 8th Peber. In the course of the daily hours of discussions and in the question of Martinş to third parties, they came to light again and again. Martin himself gave me the starting points for how to work on it. The decisive factor was our first interview on the 8th feber, which lasted from 9 a.m. to 1/2 a. m. and about which Martin later expressed himself to his companion Lt.Börninghaus opposite that she had enabled him to take a preliminary tour of Central European Prague and the problem of "Czech Slovakia". The effect of our first conversation on Nartin was so starl that he waived a special program during his stay in Prague and did not express my multiple question as to what else he wanted to see. Irtin iet met on the first or second day of his stay in Prague in Hotel nit a Pran, which gave him something about the injustice of food-reichshilfe and about