English Translation

Place of settlement of Reidenberg Sudetenland, May 3, 1939. Sudettendeutsche Freikorps Bohnhofftresse 52/1. Buf 2427 Reichenberg Ihe Sign: Ihee Message from: Our sign: Subject: *47 about the settlement of the Sudetensdeutsche Freicorps. In the late summer of the year l938 the conditions in Czechoslovakia increasingly led to a solution to the question of nationality. Not infrequently there were incidents with the Czech police and gendarmerie, especially in the German settlement areas of the state. In Silesia and the Egerlande there were repeated serious clashes in Nuremberg at the time of the Reich Party Day of the Beuchen National Socialist Workers' Party, where there were dead and wounded on both sides. In the night following the speech of the leader, Czech guards and gendarmerie posts were disarmed in some Sudeten German cities, Czech and Jewish businesses were demolished; in short, the Czechs had lost control of the Sudet German territory and everywhere the will of Sudete Germanism broke through for the connection to the empire in the most elementary forn. The announcement of the bill of standing followed in many parts of the Sudetenland and the