English Translation

The Head of the Special Department of Cultural Policy Conversation with State Secretary K.H. Frank. The Permanent Representative of the Reich Protector, State Secretary Karl Hermann Frank, received the Diplomatic Correspondent of Transocean-Europapress, Dr. Rudolf Fischer, to an interview on the political situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the fourth year of the war. The conversation developed as follows: l. Question: In recent times Eduard Benesch has made great efforts to get back into the foreground of the political stage. You, Mr. Labo Secretary, made communications at the time following the assassination of Exo Deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, which concluded that Benesch's connection with this assassination was connected. Have new evidence for Benesch s' guilt emerged in the meantime? Have you also received new points of reference for the scope of the intended effects in England and in the Protectorate? Answer: As a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the former Czechoslovak Parliament - I was, as you might recall, the leader of the Sudeten German Party, who has been the strongest political party in former Czecho-Slovakia since the famous parliamentary elections of 1935 - I had many opportunities to know and judge Eduard Benesch, his characteristics as a politician, his abilities and his character. Standing in political life for years, I have his internal political methods and his external political activity - both was very much at Benesch - 2 -