STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 262, sig. 109-4/4

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-2- & In addition to the most diverse political tasks, the entire arming and political evaluation of the following Czech terrorist actions fell into the division of this firm, above all after the Czech mobilization of 2nd May. After the conclusion of the Nuremberg Party Congress, I moved with the entire party leadership from Prague to Eger and there again had in my agenda the control of the sudetendeutséhen defense struggle, the centralization of the entire news system about this and the political evaluation of these news. Since my activities were not hidden from the Czech authorities, I was followed by other leading comrades of the SdP steck= in writing.Lo minutes before the shooting and storming of the main site of the Sudeten German Party in Eger by Czech tank troops, I left them in the company of Karl Her=man Frank. Together with the entire party leadership, I went to the Altreich and was first transferred to the management of the "News Office Dresden". Then I was appointed to the staff of the sudetenGerman Freikorps in Beyreuth-Donndorf. After the liberation of the Sudetenland, I headed the law firm in Reichen: berg the chancellery of Deputy Gauleiter Karl Hermann Franl About a week before the invasion of the German troops into the now Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, I was sent by the Gau=leitung in special mission to Prague. After the establishment of the Protectorate and after the appointment of the former deputy = the Gauleiter K.H.Frank as Secretary of State at the Reichsprotector, I was assigned as his representative as a political adviser to the staff of the Chief of the Civil Administration. After taking over the office = business by the Reich Protector on April 15, 1939, I lead the "Volkspolitische Gruppe" in his authority. Sauhl