STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10 Page 100 · 100 of 117
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10
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68/2AM Conversation with State Secretary K.H. Frank The Permanent Representative of the Reich Protector, State Secretary Karl Hermann Frank, received the diplomatic correspondent of Transozean-Europapress, Dr. Rudolf Fischer, to an interview with Yius i on the situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The conversation auriaglitn developed as follows: 1.Question: In recent times Eduard Benesch has made great efforts to come back to the foreground of the political stage. You, Mr. Secretary of State, made communications at the time after the assassination of the Deputy Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, which concluded that Benesch was connected with this assassination by Breler. Have new evidence for Benesch's phagan guilt stopped in the meantime? Have you also received new opinions on the extent of the intended effects in England and in the Protectorate? t/ Molforu Answer: In order to better understand, I must give an introduction. Eduard Benesch, whose characteristics, character and abilities I have known well since the emergence of the Czech-Slovak Republic in 1918, but especially as a former member of the foreign policy committee of the #shecho-Slowak House of Representatives since the famous parliamentary elections in 1935 (which, as it is well known, made the Sudeten German party the strongest party in the state), is dominated by an overriding need for validity. To play a role in the world, to be printed, filmed and radioed, is capable of everything. How much his vanity was recognized and smiled abroad, proves, among other things, the well-known article of the Moscow Pravda of 19.12.1934, After the collapse of his "state art" in 1938 - the Czecho-Slovak Republic destroyed