English Translation

2 Pressburg, 5.III.1943 To Dr.Bernhard A d o l f , P r a g II., G e h e im ! Stephansgasse 30. General situation in Slovakia. In the centre of the internal political events is the Duell Hlinkapartei - Hlinkacgarde, which is increasingly sharpening and a decision for the time around the 14th March, the state foundation day, waits.Similarly as on the 30th January, this day is to be used as a flagship for party politics, although it is precisely the share of the guard in the foundation of the Slovak state The fact that the party now makes itself out of this passive stance, which it tried to deny for a time by all means, is clear from the statement of the vice-chairman of the party and school minister Sivák mentioned in the previous report. a very skilful way their main activity on the spiritual unification of the Slovak people, a undoubtedly war-important task, which must only be welcomed by the German side, but which is misused to the colportation of absolutely chauvinistic - Slovak tendencies.One always commits the empire and the leader with the indication that the leader of the highest basic sentence the ethnic Slovakia is the flagship of the promotion of the ethnic peculiarity of the Slovak people under the aegyde of the great German neighbour, who, under the compulsion of the highest ethnic principles, helped the Slovak nation to freedom and sees its most beautiful task as the Slovakian people. In the first place, the empire is morally obliged to look beyond the internal political conditions of the country and the large political line - which was emphasized by such speeches - is to be seen as an important factor in the development of the state. Second, however, it is repeatedly stressed that not the Slovak people gained their state, but that the Slovaks were categorized by the Germans to a certain extent, only so that the Reich had a propagandistically effective advertisement for its ethnic tolerance. The Hlinka Party and the speeches of the ministers themselves cannot conceal the actual mentality expressed, for example, in the Hlinkah Party's large-scale training in Bad Sliač last year, as leading party members, such as Čulen, Čarnogurský_u.a. openly said that the real danger did not threaten the Slovaks from the Bolsheviks and also not from the Hungarians, because from these they were protected by the Germans.