STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 682, sig. 109-4/430

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4 Oberführer Dr. Bertsch Prag, 10 June 1942. I./ V er m e r k : On 9 June 1942, 6 p.m., President Dr. Hácha and the protectorate government / including the representative of the Protectorate in Berlin Chvalkovsky / were received at the conclusion of the state funeral for the fallen Stv. Reich Protector 4-Obergruppenführor Heydrich from the F h r e r at the New Reich Chancellery. The reception took place in the presence of the Reichsführer 4, the #-Oberstgruppenführor Dalueg, who is responsible for the perception of the business of the Stv. Reichsprotektor, and the State Secretary -Group Leader K.H. Prank. Furthermore, Reichsfahrer Martin Bormann, the leader of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, 4-Obergruppen führer and General der Waffen- Sepp Dietrich, as well as Reichsminister Dr. Lammers and Minister of State Dr. Meissner, who introduced the members of the protectorate government to the leader. The leader initiated his approximately half-hourly demonstrations with the fact that the reception took place in a "historic moment". In mid-March he had already given the president Dr. Hácha explains that the two peoples of Central Europe & Germany and the Czechs - would only have room side by side if they did not get along. If the latter did not, one of the two nations had to leave the Central European region for good. Which of the peoples this would be today is undeniable, as President Dr. By the wise decision of the President Dr. Hácha in the early year l939 there had not been a war between Germany and the former Czech Republic; because the Bohemian Moravian area before the devastation and the Czech people before the destruction had caused 8 Preha 2 -