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

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English Translation

The radio messages also found in the original from parachute agents, which I announced to the Czech ministers at the reception of the autonomous government on 26 May, continue to prove his guilt for the murder. After several parachute agents had come to know the true mood of the Czech people in their home country and their negative attitude to riot, murder and sabotage, they warned their Czech envoys in London of the execution of the attack and asked to refrain from the murder plan, bearing in mind the expected serious consequences for the Czech population. Benesh, however, who broke the murder, (but according to the knowledge of the true mood in the protectorate should have prevented him, withhel broniefta.. did not do so, denxktxnxaer let free run the action of the murderers and thanked on 3.6.1942 in a radio message for the carried out act. How wrong the account of Benesch was was was shown by the breathing up and easing of the whole Czech people when the murderers and their helpers were caught. The opposite of what Benesch had hoped for as a result of the assassination had occurred. The murder was not the start of further insurrection and sabotage negotiations, but an occasion for serious real-political reflection by the Czechs. To what extent English and American Benesh believed that the Czech people were in the Protectorate or were in an insurgency is beyond my knowledge. If they believe him, they are in error. (The bomb fell a significant man and plunged a number of ashes into disaster, but the calm and order has not been disturbed since then and the population of the Protectorate works with all its strength for the kingdom.) - 5 -