English Translation

My superior national gendarmerie commando No.l in Vienna pointed out that about 60 stand-alone comrades from Austria were waiting for my place and gently advised me to take steps to take over Czechoslovak services and thus to facilitate the situation of the Austrians. Those who would have seen in my innermost part must have found that I had suffered severely under the turn of fate and, following the appeal to comradeship, after agonizing self-surmounting, had permeated me to the heaviest decision I then reported, to a superior national gendarmerie commando No.l in the month of November I9l8, that I was in the sense of the invitation of the Monarchs will complete my registration for takeover in Czechoslovak services in Prague,- In implementation of this I arrived in Prague. I entered the Czech-Slovak command post in order to enter an anteroom and I happened to meet an old regiment comrade who, among other things, informed me that the very popular regiment's comrade, Captain Stuchlik, had been happily survived 4 years of war in the front, after entering the peace garnison, was shot by his own team, in the course of a shooting exercise, obviously intentionally, and the fate of the comrade was close to me, because it was an extremely brave and highly respected war comrade. Out of this mood, without thinking of anything else, I said to myself: "This gang i" This statement caught a Czech gendarmerie guard who had to have listened to the conversation and stabbed me with an ad for "insulting the Czech-Slovak nation -• The result of this ad was that I did not pretend to register and that I would not I was told to return to my post in Gmünd and to wait for the next one.- With this result I returned to Gmünde, immediately reported the incident and dedicated with undiminished energy to the exercise of the service, which placed ever higher demands-in view of the rushing events.- However, my situation became difficult,I felt the compulsion of the situation more and more sustainable, had to bear all the burden of the responsibility of service and also faced important family concerns. My wife had to leave for her parents to give birth in Budweis, since I had probably had a service home in Gmünd but no apartment facilities. That's why I had the natural duty, my wife and