English Translation

6C - 9 - of the Courts of Justice. After all this, the defendant, after the court had been established, was clear that he was making communications to the Shebek Legation Council, to which he was not informed, and that he informed him of facts which he had learned in an official capacity and which at least represented secrets in this kind of communication. The defendant's communications have put major public interests at risk, which is already evident from the value attached to these communications and their attainment by the Protectorate's emissary in Berlin. Dr. Chvalkovsky's letter to Dr. Masařik was sent under the records of the then Prime Minister of the Protectorates' Association, Ing. Eliaš was found when the investigation led to treason, which later led to a death sentence against him. Such knowledge was of considerable importance when it came to setting up a part of the Protectorate government at that time, as it was one of the domestic principles of Czech chauvinists to support high- and country traitors from the protectorate population and their families. As convictions and forthcoming convictions became known in these partly working circles against the empire, essential public interests of the empire in the fight against sabotage and high-ranking from the protectorate have been endangered. The defendant has no proof that, although he has been actively involved in fighting against the Czech Republic for years, he knew these relationships that had formed in the Protectorate from his residence in Berlin in the Soviet Union in 940. In his earlier work in the fight against Czech politics, it is also unlikely that he would have promoted Czech-Chauvinist circles in knowledge of these circumstances. It is not to be refuted to him that, since the Protectorate government needed to carry out its task of trusting the Reich's protector and thus the Reich, it relied on this trust and assumed that in the circles of the Protectorates' government and their legation, a positive, impeccable attitude to the Reich and the order created by it in the Bohemian-Moravian area would prevail. However, the complaint would have been based on his many years of knowledge.