English Translation

fui-Fa/fay MAM Reply of the Deputy Reichsprotektor to the speech of the President Dr.Hacha on 15.3.1943 LC at the Preger Burg. Mr. President! I thank you, Hart Staatspragtdent, for the commitment of unconditional devotion and unshakable fidelity to the Piherer, which you have just expressed to me in your own name and for the Pro- tektorat government. I will gladly convey this to the Pührer, because I know that most of the Czech population of Bohemia and Moravia is faithful to you and your government, contrary to all hostile claims, and proves this again and again through exemplary work for the great war decision. I have received with pleasure and satisfaction the large-scale announcement in the Lucerne Hall in Prague and the approval of the entire Protectorate, all in all, in the open words of Secretary of State Frank's report. Selbet the foreign country has had to take note that the Czech population of Bohemia and Moravia, under Threr's leadership, is willing to finally and truly recognize the seriousness of the situation, to act accordingly and to take on the temporary restrictions and sacrifices willingly, in view of the threat to the entire European and thus also to the culture of the countries Bohemia and Mähren by criminal Bolshevism. It was in the spirit of the generous policy of our leader, who, after the mean attack on #-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, gave the Czech people an opportunity for atonement by probation, if once again every Czech from the German side was told openly, it was now a huge world decision. Due to its thousand years of history, Bohemia and Mhren belong to the German Reich and to Europe. So far, the German weapons have had the -2-