English Translation

1/226 Prague, 12.2.43 D26 1212 Betr.: Reception by the Secretary of State of the members of the government Dr. Kr e j ě i , Mor a v e c and Hr u b ý. When the chairman of the government, Dr.Krejči, met the rapporteur at lo.oo today at noon, he immediately asked if the rapporteur was aware of why he had to appear at the State Secretary at ll.oo in the morning. He /Krejči/ already assumed that he was invited with Moravec and Hruby that the Secretary of State wanted to return to the matter at that time concerning the resettlement operation in southern Bohemia. On the way to the Czernin Palace, Krejči again pointed out his heavy position as head of government and stressed that he actually had to bear the main burden of responsibility, while the individual ministers were not at all responsible to him, or only to a small extent. Hruby had not yet found it worth the effort to send him /Krejči/ the copy of his /Hrubys/ letter to the Secretary of State on the matter of the South Bohemian resettlement campaign, although he would have asked /KREJči / Hrubý for it. Moreover, until now Hrubský would have kept the material on which the present letter was based. When Krejči saw Dr. Gehrke, head of the Stapo head office, in the reception room in the Czernin Palace, before the gentlemen were introduced to the State Secretary, he remarked to the rapporteur that "the matter is bad and he fears a lot". When Krejči, Moravec and Hrubý came back to the waiting room after their reception by the State Secretary, all three ministers were pale and visibly excited. Especially Minister Hruby looked completely depressed and soon turned to Krejši and asked him what to do now. Krejži answered him harshly: "Worship and serve faithfully", and turned his back on Hrubš. Between the three ministers it was agreed that tomorrow, the 13.2.43, they wanted to discuss the matter in detail, after Krejči had previously rejected Hruby's request to receive him /Hruby/ even today. During the trip from the Czernin Palace to the ministry, Krejši noted that Moravec and he had just had to be witnesses of a sharp reprimand by Minister Hrubý. ./.