English Translation

Sh transcript. Dr.von Burgsdorff Under-Secretary of State. - Prague, 18 March 1940 MAS ATS I have had the Oberlandrat Hertel with me today and asked him, without informing him of my source, for the facts stated in the report. Hertel has informed me that he has little traffic with the nobles of his district. Daněk, Kuenburg and Harrach were folk Germans, with the first-mentioned had been once for hunting; moreover, he had only returned visits which had been made to him. With the prince Rohan he had no traffic at all, he was only once outside, to say that from an internment is seen. Rohan was German-friendly, his children attended the German school, his wife was a born Hardtmuth from Budweis. Right is that he had temporarily freed Kuenburg and Daněk from military service, just like the Count Harrach; Kuenburg had taken over his property in March 39 and could not leave it now in the sign of the production battle. Daněk had taken part in the Polish campaign and took over a property from the lease in March of the year. In both cases, the agricultural clerk had agreed to the temporary deferral, Count Harrach had also only been postponed for a few months, because he had to be present because of a glass factory which would be in liquidation. Hertel rejected the accusation that he did not care enough about the people's Germans. He, as well as the Reg. Rat Dorsch lead to the peoples' Germans, but this had been restricted in recent months because of the gasoline shortage. The gendarmerie officials, however, are also now looking for the people of Germany. Hertel will also attend the SA's training evenings on a regular basis.