GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 701, sig. 110-4552

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S9 00872 - 8 - so beautifully said, I also want to do it: we drink the first glass on the welfare of the Führer and our President", a second time he does not allow himself to be poured. When he sees cucumbers in the appetizer, he calls his head, pushes him 2oo,- K into his hand and asks him to pack 3 pieces of these sour cucculks, in Prague there is no one, he will hand them over to his son in the evening. The innkeeper's question, whether he can also pack something else, he rejects and says: "That already reaches the boy". His attitude, German and Czech, again form anecdotes of his former professional life, nothing is said politically. At the scheduled time the trip goes back to Schlan. There awaits district captain Procházka, he and his concept officials in the old-known and so beloved Czech civil service uniform with gold-plated sabre. In front of the Biid dos President at the Prochazka law firm, which was painted by a local painter for So.ooo,- K, he again inquired about the state of his president, receives bad news from Prochatska that Hácha sometimes doesn't even know his fault and even his old administrator often asks who he is. At the subsequent presentation of the officials, Bienert no longer speaks in the official's office, but asks the children, after the grade, at the most the question of conscience, whether the beants also carefully read and study the current regulations and is satisfied with the naturally affirmative answer. In the meantime it has become evening, Prochazka refuses to tie up his high guest even further, after the ejnpresse of Laun only the tiredness and the urge to go home prevails. In the car he asks again and again whether he had correctly said it in Laun, whether the people understood it as he meant it and whether the purpose of his journey as he thought it had been fulfilled. The tension of the visit is over, the echo follows. People in town and country speak of "their beeer", on the Czech radio they have heard with pride and now rarely interest of their ministerial visit. In the Czech newspaper, they are also eagerly reading the big political report from the rally of the deputy head of government in their city, except for football, suicide and rabbit breeding, and some say that now that you can read it slowly in print, there is even more awareness of what he has said.