STATE SECRETARY FOR THE REAL PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1898, sig. 109-5/126

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When I asked PEROUTY why he did not put his beliefs in his articles, why he was sharp in his article on summer and autumn events l9ç8, he replied evasively that it was not a democratic custom, his secret goals and his opinions publicized.He believes that every policy has its secret objectives, has its limits as far as possible. For tactical reasons, let us take the opposite view in the press. After all, he had to avoid being once again the challenger of the "revise of borders" because he had already come to the will of these tendencies in the year 9ç3. I found out that Peroutka typically has democratic leads on the necessary double-mindedness of politics, and I read to him the quotes of his article, which he wrote after the establishment of the Protectorate, and told him that German politics did not recognise this double-sensuality, that it brought him into grave suspicion and, ultimately, locked him up. In this matter, PEROUTKA tried to make excuses for the then censorship, which on the poison side cut everything down and on the other hand allowed positive regulation of Czech journalism. I did not allow myself to be influenced by PEROUTK'S leaders and asked for the following question: What would you say if a Czech novice came to you tomorrow, who, meanwhile, stood fully on the side of the Reich's line and asked you to write an article in the spirit of integrating the Czech nation into the Empire.Of course, this journalist would not look for you on Pankrác or Buchenwald, but in your private apartment. After a brief consideration, when he understood my questions, he answered as follows: " I would have to tell this journalist the following: 1/ that I am five years away from all events and I would need time to get to the level. 2/ I would say that I don't want to have anything to do with politics anymore and that I will return to my old interests - philosophy and psychiatry.In this direction I could write various articles, or in this respect I have maintained my level by using the Buchenwald library.In particular, about GoET-HOVI, which is next to Nietzscheho my most in love with the Philo - sof, / As I found out, NierscheHo is in a typical democracy-thic spirit./on which I worked in BuchenWald. 3/ I would have to tell him that it would not be enough for the Czech public to...