English Translation

20 - 2 1. Catholic circles, including lay people, condemn the sentence of death on the basis of the codex. The only exception so far was a dechant who declared that the kingdom could not act differently at the time of war, and if it were to act differently, he would consider this to be weakness himself. An advocate in Prague, who was formerly a Catholic priest, told of the sensitivity of the Church in this regard. When he was allowed to act as a secular advocate, this was done with the express reservation that he should not be involved in any process involving life and death. 2. But also the activists themselves condemn the death penalty and claim that in juridical terms this is an outrageous violation of freedom of thought. (A Czech lawyer). There-. by tying up an injustice and such a new order no one would want to have. (a Czech principal author.) 3. Of course, enemies of the Reich curse the Germans because of this rigour of justice. They place it as a nonsense if someone is punished for what he thinks and speaks. Also the defaitis-mus is an innocent thing with them, and everyone can think and speak what he wants. 4. But it is also Germans themselves who place this justice as too harsh. It was a Czech sectional councillor of the Ministry of the Interior who declared that the Germans were aware of their overly great hardship, which harms them. Similarly, a Czech chief author also said that the German themselves condemned this hardship and that they were aware that they would not be forgiven if something were to happen. In the case of victory - he continued - they would certainly wipe out the tracks, but in the event of failure this would not be possible, because one would write about it in the reading books of the whole world. Moreover, he himself heard how the Germans condemned this justice. Thus, an accounting board from Vienna was upset about the first list of the executed and said that he was ashamed of it as a German. Thus, a German official from the Supreme Supervisory Office also declared that the Germans did not know what they were harming themselves with it and that a German senior secretary in the district authority explained that the German had learned nothing about it. 14912 - 3