STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10

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44 Conversation with State Secretary K.H. Frank. The Permanent Representative of the Reich Protector, State Secretary Karl Hermann Frank, received in Prague the diplomatic correspondent of Iransocean-Europapress, Dr. Rudolf Fischer, to an interview about the political situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the fourth year of the war. The discussion developed as follows: 1. Question: In recent times, Eduard Benesch has made great efforts to bring him back to the forefront of the political stage. At the time, Mr. State Secretary, after the assassination, they made communications on the Deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, who concluded on a Žusamenhang Benesch's with this assassination. Have there been any new evidence of Benesch's guilt? Do you also have any new evidence of the extent of the intended effects : Cromouy As a member of the foreign policy committee of the former Czechoslovak Parliament - I was a Member of the Sudeten German Party, which became the strongest political party in the former Czechoslovakia through the famous parliamentary elections of the year l935 - I had many opportunities and opportunities to know and assess Eduard Benesch, his characteristics as a politician, his tenacities and his character. Having been in political life for years, I have been able to follow his domestic policy methods and his foreign policy activities - both of which were very close to each other at Benesch - but since lg17. Benesch is an international political broker and player. He is incarcerated in an exaggerated need for validity.