STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391 Page 25 · 25 of 122
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391
English Translation
23 - 5 - and then that its extension was a useless waste of blood. Then, directly or through intermediaries, they indicate that it might be possible to reach an agreement and that the German people and the German state meant well with everything and, mainly, that it finally wanted to live in peace with its neighbours in the future. But at the end of every such speech there will always be desperate threats; that - whoever wants to continue the war - for all the terrible things that would then come, would bear the responsibility that it would plunge Europe into the deepest ruin and that all, especially the occupied peoples, would die out or be wiped out. And in the end, Hitler will probably explain in a loud and public manner what he has threatened once before and what he will first tell the Allies confidentially or through Neutrale: "Maybe we will finally fall, but our end will be the end of a Nero. We will tear the whole of Europe into perdition. "Yes, well, friends, at the end of Hitler, there will be much neronic; also the tragic fall of the German people, as well as the strange bursting of this Berchtesgaden soap bubble artist, by whom the German nation was led at such a crucial moment in its history. But we and the allied peoples and governments know all this well; they are prepared for it and cannot be intimidated or diverted from their path by such extortionary misery. Berlin and Munich evil will be eradicated with the root and the guilty will be punished after a fee, come what may! The image of today's Germany, that I drew you here, and the firm will of the allied are a guarantee for it. And in such a situation Germany gave on 18.1o. Karl Hermann Fr a n k his low and threatening speech to you. I want to note to her today only the following: This speech is and remains for all of us as a model example of German politics, i.e. the policy of the Nazi Berlin and the policing of the tshechoslovak (Nazis?) against our state and against the Czech people, one of the most important political documents of this war. It is now known to the international public leash, goes to the decisive places of all free states of the world and is placed on the table of arms