STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2501, sig. 109-12/148

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Ba. Mvm ghstdotiadbabi dotinsdud-go 2o1e2 oont minbidmis1-00 m tabsglanet - 2 his own political views. St. stated variously that he had been on the candidate list of the DNsAP without this being true. He ran only once on a list of all German parties in Prague. The fact that his legal protection did not take place for political reasons, but rather for purely material reasons, is proved by the fact that after the trial he exerted a heavy financial pressure on various non-profit students to get his money. In connection with the People's Sports Trial, the letter of justification dated 22 January 1934, which St. dèn sent to then President of the Republic, Masaryk, is very conclusive. The following sentences are particularly revealing: ".My political attitude at that time (19l9-1925) is characterized by the motto that I presupposed a newspaper correspondence which had been published for some time via my initiative: Internal Political:The views of Prof. Dr. Masaryks, Foreign Political: The Wilson Program.... I had no direct or indirect relations with the NsDAP up to the trials. The National Socialist movement interested me much less than the communist movement. I have not read the standard work of the Reichsdeutschen Natiónalsozialism "Mein Kampf" and know the publications of the NSDAP only insofar as I needed them for the trials... The above-mentioned letter of justification also shows sëine's less consistent attitude towards the Jewish question. He mentioned there for example: "..... I must confess that I have also otherwise been associated with "foreign factors", mainly with Reich Germans. 2./ a Czechoslovak wrz for his son-in-law Ottemberg, Jewish Confe n to take the concentration camp in Stadelheim Interventionste, 3./ who fled from Berlin au Tuth Fischer, her missing son Friedländer of Jewish descent, to investigate and to bring him to his release, 4./ The editor of the "Neue Freie Presse" Dr.Paul Kisch, Jewish ancestry, me around his brother Egon Kisch who was imprisoned in Berlin, Czechoslovakian citizen Jewish 52703 109-12-142