STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 618, sig. 109-4/365

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18a The content of my conversation with General Friderici on 6 April 1940 was known: The general initially complained in lengthy remarks to him about my cry from 27 March 1940 (copy in the appendix) and was aware that I was not entitled to receive information about his actions.I replied that, according to the situation of the things, I might have been able to address this letter to Colonel Longin personally, but that the matter itself would not have been resolved if he did not find himself willing to any measures which would have a more loyal attitude towards the protectorate towards IARE. The general replied to me in about one hour's execution that between the Wehrmacht and the troops which always had an extremely good agreement, that DemelIhuber, Keppler, etc., were able to straighten out all kinds of incidents with him directly. Never or quite rarely would frictions occur between members of the armed forces and the replacement forces here.Otherwise, it would have been in the Old Reich and especially in Poland, where incidents of a more serious nature had occurred, which, in his knowledge, had led to a debate between the commander-in-chief of the army and the Reichsführer. Since that time, as well as after the decree of the guide on the form of correspondence between services in general, a certain degree of calming would have been in place. The general got far out in the meeting and came back again uf the new name " -site commandant","/-dead-head regi- ent", "wake regiment" etc.,names for which the Wehrmacht would have the Amonopol and which, according to his opinion, party formations should not apply. in the newspaper lëse, that the "//-site- 62307 commandantship" on 15.3.1940 had given breakfast, just at the Tege, which had invaded the Wehrmacht a year ago, and at the memorial of which the Wermacht would have been the carrier of all events, this fact would have made him somewhat disconcerted. At this breakfast, among other things, the Secretary of State Dr. Stuckart from Berlin, who could have visited him when he was the representative of the Wehrmacht, who had been appointed by the leader, in the Protectorate, since he took part in the parade. He stood up from his chair, looked out at the stress, and remarked: "I don't want to talk about it any more, I see something like that through the window."I took a position on the individual points that the general had made, as I pointed out: I stressed that we could not get rid of the feeling that the Wehrmacht was receptive to the defence squadrons and, in particular, to the arms--' as something puzzling and that it tried to make us very often difficulties.I mentioned the case of the standard "Germany" in Rokitzan.Now the general vigorously hacked in and claimed that his guarantor, the Stendort commander of Pilsen, an old P.G. I only replied to him that the original transfer protocols of the city of Rokitzan were in our hands with signatures of the Luftfahrt-Horstkommandantur and that there would be no mention in it of a devastation of the barracks in Ro-kitzan. With regard to the final separation of the weapons-i from the Wehrmacht in Steniontanlagen, which he regretted contrary to the conditions of the previous year(!),I took the view that we were our men v. It would be unacceptable for us to have to follow the measures taken by the Wehrmacht with the signature of the Lord of Briesen on the writing-protective steppe.If uoiiodesNneTearne