English Translation

Lecturer Ziegler Prague, January 18, 1941. 85 The_Legionary article_of_the_Lord_State Secretary and_the/Czech_Press. /Continued from January 4th to January 8th incl./ chi bo 274.4. All the pages, which had not yet brought up to the l4th of the Legionary article, caught up and published it two- or three-partly, consistently on the first page. The own comments, which were still missing, were also followed. "Ceské Slovo" and "Národni Práce" even have two comments:-In their own parts we_d u.a. The false myth, the protection economy, the terror, the repression of qualified forces, the reference to Goebbel's speech in Berlin to the Czech cultural workers, the fact that the Czech people still had to decide during the war, the contradiction between the Reich's attitude and the Legionnaire idea, the enrichment, the friendship with the Jews, the principle of Ranehin that work for the fatherland was not paid, the relations with the Western Plutocracies and the Freemauterism were underlined and the demand for the removal and liquidation of the obstacle was made, otherwise the interests of the Czech People were at stake. "Lidové Listy" states that in the Czech Republic there has long been dissatisfaction with the privileges of the legionaries in the service of Dr. Beneß. It is now clear to the Czech people that it is in his own interest to remove the stone of ancestor in Czech-German relations. It is certain that even a part of the legions' courtmen had been deceived by their ideas of justice after their return to the fatherland. The legionaries with their Masonic ideas were finally a thing of the past. The "Národni Listy" refer to the asocial side of the whole movement. She and the further duration of her ideology in the Protectorate remained unbearable under the changed circumstances. Legio- naires were irreconcilable, unteachable, in short, they did not want peace. Their elimination was a prerequisite for an understanding. However, on this basis the Czech future rests. Therefore the legionary question had to be solved in such a way that the penetration of the imperial idea into the broadest masses of the people would not be inhibited.