STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 429, sig. 109-4/174 Page 23 · 23 of 45
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 429, sig. 109-4/174
English Translation
22 admits that the activities of the organization were aimed at damage to the interests of the Reich. I also admit that I have recognized that the whole matter was of a traitorous nature. I was aware that I would have been able to report to a competent authority (a German authority) on this matter. That I did not do this is why I cannot expect anyone to give away my comrades and fellow countrymen. I personally do not know the Polish press attaché W i e r b i a n s k y. I have not heard his name before either. S e h n o r a n z once told me that he had spoken to a Poland and that he said that there would be a war between Germany and Poland, that Poland would be defeated, but in the end the Polish state would be restored. The possibility exists, that S c h m o r a n z with regard to this conversation even more or also the conversation in other forums existed to me. However, I can not remember at first. I do not know whether the Pole in question has dealt with W i r b i a n s k y. I cannot remember saying that these messages would be in agreement with the information I have already known, nor can it be possible, because I have not received such news. I deny that I have learned from Sc h m o r a n z that he is speaking about the French Consulate in Prague to a former tachechian press correspondent - Dr. The French journalist H u n t z b a l e r is not personally, nor is he known by name. It is true that I have been told several times about German troops marches in Moravia, about preparations for war in the East. However, I have not been told that this news is not known to me either personally or personally, nor do I remember that he would have sent me any political or military news by means of a reuter journalist. At the end of April or at the beginning of May l939 - I was already the President of the Council - the Colonel D r g a d handed me over in the office of