English Translation

139 -2- is, however, only one side of the matter. Dariber went out on March 15, 1940 to completely spontaneous demonstrations from the Czech side, which point out that the view of the present situation has become a substantially different one. In particular, it is important to highlight the oratory meeting of the Committee of the National Community and the rally of its head, Nebeský, which have entered in a dignified way into the framework of the celebration of the integration of the Bohemian countries into the Great German Empire. It is no less significant that almost all the leading officials of the National Community published articles in the Czech newspapers on 15 March, in which they acknowledged the importance of the events of this day in a positive way. I must stress that this was really a spontaneous action, to which I myself did not give the slightest cause. To prove that I value these things correctly, I can also refer to a statement by the Reichsprotektor himself, which was lurking during the celebration of March 15, 1940, for publication. However, I do not want to hide the fact that in individual, romantically predisposed natures still traces of the former conceptions, as they were pre-eminent in the Bohemian countries for 20 years, have been left behind, I have here in particular the so-called military Maffia in the sense, only with regard to these, needs the circumstance that it is here It is well known that the soldier always finds it extremely difficult to separate himself from the army which he has worked on and which has grown up, and that it is appropriate to judge these phenomena as benevolently as possible, because there are no symptoms for the It is not only in his feelings, but also in his interests, that the mood of the population is, but only the riots of isolated members of a single state, which was particularly severely affected by the change which occurred in the circumstances,