English Translation

Copy. Dr.Hans Neuwirth Prague, 29th January 1940. Lawyer Prague II, Wasserg.20 Dr.N./E. Kor.pr./H. Pg.Kreisleiter Ing.Constantin Höss, Prague III Island Kampa My circle leader! The experiences of recent times move me to do everything to eliminate misunderstandings at least for the future. Having arrived at home, I think that our just-led conversation could be a reason for further misunderstandings. As far as I remember, you used the phrase: You had said "that Neuwirth is working at the border of the allowed and does nothing wrong because he is an over-average lawyer". According to the principle of "Qui tacet Consentire videtur", I would like to contradict this. I am convinced myself that I have a broader basis for training than most of my professional colleagues in my old field of work, and that I am also more interested in purely professional practice for a number of personal and factual reasons than that. If it weren't, I wouldn't have been able to stand up all these years. It seems to me, however, that it is essential that I have always acted on the basis of a professional ethic, which is characterized by the view that people in my business are demanding that they remain right, but that it does not matter that someone is right, that the right prevails. Therefore, in countless cases, I have rejected lucrative clients, travelled and often overthrew myself with my clients. "At the border of the allowed", I have never acted as a trade in the exercise of my profession. Of course, I acted against the law there at the border of the allowed and even in full consciousness, where I fought for the cause of the empire by using legal-technical and professional means. I also counted my activities in the political processes, especially in the popular sports process and the processes for Konrad Henlein and the SdP. I'm asking you to take note.