STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2754, sig. 109-14/57 Page 28 · 28 of 27
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2754, sig. 109-14/57
English Translation
-15- 2y 1938 3rd October 1938 The "Deutsche Tageszeitung" appears again for the first time. Front fighters take over the order service. The right-wing approach comes into effect. In long columns the Czech Nile leaves the city and avch Öberleutnant Eehunek finally moves away with his state defense guard. The Einmersch in Zone III (Egerland ) has begun. The city prepares for the reception of the troops. October 4th K.H. Frank welcomes the leader as Karlovy Vary. October 4. At 6 a.m. the last Czech soldier left the city. At 1/2 a. m. the bells ring and sound the sirens. Karlsba d is free. In a moment the city is immersed in a sea of swastika flags and lays beautiful festive decorations. At 9 o'clock in the morning the first season of the NSkK arrives and airplanes are circling the city. October 4 Unceasing cheer breaks off, sls is known that in the afternoon already the leader will enter Karlovy Vary. The Dr. Becherplatz is prepared as a gathering place, the theater festively decorated. At about 1 o'clock the army group IV of the Generels of the artillery of Reichenau moves into the city, cheeringly welcomed by the population. Around 1 o ́clock a tank division with its tanks arrives and takes position at Dr. Becherplatz. Because the body stand of the leader appears. Formations and front fighters provide the order service. A music band plays brisk marches. Infinite jubilation accompanies the guide on his arrival and on his journey through the streets of the city. At the house "White Swan" the guide leaves the car and walks away with his guide the front of the set up honorary formations. Incessant thanks to the beloved leader. In front of city theatre the guide is received and welcomed by a group of Egerländer. In the foyer of the theatre, the Mariatheresia knight and senator of the SdP, Dr. Friedrich von Tischer, greets him and gives him a Goethe portfolio and a precious vase as a gift from the city. Then the presentation of various personalities takes place. In the direction of the Führer, nan sees Reichsführer W and head of the German police, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsminister Dr. Lamsers, the generals of the artilerie of Keitel and Reichenau, Reichskonmissar Konrad Henlein and his deputy Karl Hermann Frank, district director Wollner and district director Tschörner. Üm 2 o'clock the Führer-Stan-darte is pulled up on the roof of the city theatre and the leader enters the balcony with his guide. District director Tscherner and Abg. K.H. Frank, then the Führer (text in Karlovy Vary hist. Jahrbuch l939). Again and again the leader is interrupted by cheering shouts and speech choirs and the preude of the population knows no borders until he has left the balcony again, after the Germany and the Horst Wessel song had faded away. At 3/4 3 o'clock the