English Translation

Security Service of the Reichsführer-4 Prag-Bubentsch, 13.12.1944. SD-Leitsabteilung Prag G e h e i m Sachsenweg telex 60141, 77841, Czernin 3911-19 L - PA 503 Go e m! H. 8. A.5614 56 1.) To Minister Office 4-Obergruppenführe Minister of State K.H. FrankEg; 14. DEZ 1844 Prag 2.) Message: To the Befehslhaber of the Security Police and the SD 4-StandartenführER Dr. W e n m a n n 24 Prag 2) Minister of the Interior Richard B i n e r t . Previous: Here, last of 24.11.44.B.No. 5224. On an interview between Minister of Interior R.Bienert and a Czech guarantor of 7.l2.44, the following points appear in part: "The article of the chairman of the government Dr. Krejči spoke in the "Národní Politika", which spoke of the legitimacy and legality of the function of the President of the State Dr. Hácha. Although this article shows a high degree of technical knowledge, he had forgotten that his formulation of the trust of the leader who needs the President is also a le- gimity and legalitit. Until now, it has always been claimed that Dr. Hácha was the duly elected president and therefore took a firm legal position vis-à-vis Benesch. At the moment when this principle would be abandoned, Dr. Hacha would have taken the opportunity to make provisions on his successor out of the authority of his office. Then, however, the leader's confidence in the new president would become the basis of legitimacy of the new President only when the need to appoint a new president arises. u wa 18 x{1g 1878/48/160 St.M.π9 -19 Aj/430 1509/448