STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1902, sig. 109-5/130

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English Translation

Itbrm P r o t o k o l. Betr.: Operation of the government force. At noon on 11 February 1993 at 12 o'clock, I visited the President Dr. Hácha at the Prague Castle and told him the following: I had the opportunity on Monday, 8.2.93, in Berlin the Minister of the Reich and head of the Chancellery Dr. Lammers on the offer of the President and the Government - concerning the frontline intervention of the government force - to inform. Lammers and Reichsprotektor agree with the President and the Government that (1) the proposal of the President of the Republic and the government at present could not be submitted to the Führer because the leader was concerned with the organization of important matters in such a way that he had no time to deal with the offer. 2.) the position of the leader: no member of the Czech people had to fight with the weapon in the front line, but the Czech nation had only to use its weapon by the restless labour