English Translation

Attestation I would like to confirm to Dr. Dr. Kurt O. R a b 1 that he has provided very valuable services to the former Sudeten German party since the beginning of 1938. Since November l937 at the suggestion of Dr. Sebekowsky's permanent co-worker of the party official monthly publication "Volk und Führung", Dr. Rabl joined the l5. Jäuner l938 as full-time employee in the employment office of the SdP. In addition to the preparation of the series "Sudeten German Questions and Central European Affairs" published by the SDP in English and French, he had the task of preparing confidential in-depth writings for England and Fiankreich. Dr. Rabl subsequently prepared a series of legal opinions on the constitutional situation, as well as on important police and military issues relating to the Sudeten German territory. He also drafted the principles of language law, which were incorporated into the memorandum presented by the Sudesten German negotiating delegation to the Czech Government on 7 June 1988. Following the first mobilization (2 May 1938), I commissioned Dr. Rabl to systematically collect, view and process the reports received in the employment office concerning the attacks of Czech civil and military organs in the Sudeten-German territory. In three weeks' time, Rabl's minutes - more than eight hundred - served as a factual basis for the following ongoing interventions by Prime Minister Dr. Hodža. Dr. Rabl has been the secretary of the German negotiating delegation since mid-June. In addition to the ongoing work of a confidential nature, he edited the brochures "2o Jahre sudetnedeutsche Versichtsbalanz" and "Das NationalitätenStadt - ein Lösung des Nationali-itätsproblems?" and supervised their printing. Rabl the brochures "Sources and documents" as well as "territorial or national self-government?" All of these writings served the official profession of the responsible SdP departments towards the mission Lord Runciman and the foreign press. After the dissolution of the SåP's employment office Dr. Rabl went to Berlin and worked there until last (28. During this period I have always known and appreciated Dr. Rabl as intelligent, responsible and absolutely silent fellow-artists. His very scientific orientation has never prevented him from seeing the real problems of political life clearly and sharply, from attacking himself independently and from acting unreservedly wherever this seemed useful and necessary in the interests of the cause. Dr. Rabl has been preparing for the SdP's activities since March 1 936 by studying the Czech language and by working at the University's Institute of State Science. In pursuit of this, he was arrested by the Czech police in November 1937 and held in custody for two days in Bodenbach and Prague. I wish Dr. Dr. Rabl for his further professional activity all the best.