STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 364, sig. 109-4/109 Page 27 · 27 of 43
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 364, sig. 109-4/109
English Translation
27 2 move from the Czech military and the installation of tanks. The unarmed Sudeten-Germanism could no longer stand up to this terror and pressure and in masses fled German people across the border into the Old Reich. In September 1938 Konrad Henlein's well-known call for the establishment of a Sudetendeutian Free Corps along the Chechnya border was issued in full knowledge of the situation, in order to (1) capture all men of the homeland subject to the armed forces, (2) to prevent any demoralization and refugee psychosis and (3) to create a permanent unrest of the Czechs on the border through the use of the Freikorpsmen. At last the hour of freedom had struck and every single Sudeten German was ready to give the last for his homeland. - - - The Stabsquartier of the Sudeteten German Free Corps was established in Schloss Donsdorf near Bayreuth, which was provided to us by the National Socialist Association of Teachers in a ca-meradical way. The leadership of the Free Corps was in the hands of K o n r a d H e n l s and its representative K. H. F r an k. At the headquarters the following divisions were established staff office, /