English Translation

- 4 - 10 - to express clearly and rationally, i.e. to announce and justify it in press and radio. Point 2.) is all the more necessary in order to break off the immediate enmity propaganda - it would only be a new German terror measure. Only if these two points were unanimously affirmed could the offer, which the leader would have to decide, have a real value for the leader and I could only then see more than one gesture or speculation in it." I asked Minister Moravec to communicate my opinion to the President of the Republic and to ask him, in the event that the decision would be maintained, to submit this decision to the Reichsprotector himself recently; personally also so that any opposing argument could be rejected, that the propaganda minister Moravez had only put forward the matter for propaganda reasons. Finally, I pointed out that it is unthinkable to make a heroic decision on the one hand and, at the same time, to parallel any unpleasant effects that may occur by trying to achieve amnesty. This would look like a political cow trade, and it would be a good old parliamentary-democratic custom, according to the proverb: do ut des (I give, so that you give), but today out of place. Moreover, I am not aware of an amnesty in the Reich on January 30th, nor do I believe in it,