English Translation

8L - 4 - expressly on viederholten condition that up to the present day - apart from General I n g r - I have not been induced by other persons to perform illegitimate activities. - Tee mo s eq X I clarify the following: The Ministerial Council S e h m o r a n z was the head of the press service and was subject to me in this capacity. It is possible that in June l939 or earlier or even a short time later, when Sc h n o r a n z came to me and told me that he had created a cracking, from former officers and news officers, whom he wanted to integrate into the organization of the press officers or has already installed. He explained that it was necessary to investigate the mood of the people in the Protectorate and to inform the government. He also said that this would involve the provision of political and military follow-up - the latter, in particular, on troop movements in the protectorate. He said that this was necessary to ensure that the marching troops were fed; it is possible that I gave my consent to the Sc h m o - r a n z to establish this organization; I remember that I actually gave my approval to the sc hm o r a r z to create this organization. It is possible that I have given the S e h m o r a n z still certain direc- tives, on which I should not, however, be duped. I told him this because I knew that the mood in the Czech population was not good, but rather quite excited. I admit that I told the S c h m o r a n z that he should not do anything stupid because, on the basis of his lecture on the creation of the organization, I had come to the conclusion that he wanted to use this naturally to illegal activity. The fact that I suspected this was because the general mood among the Czechs at that time was directed towards a re-establishing of the former conditions. This fact was not precipitated by me, for example, by Sehm o r a n z or other persons, but I established it myself when travelling on the tramway as well as at Gingen over Wenceslas Square. At this time was not yet directly with a war outbreak