STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1865, sig. 109-5/93

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V6 Mr. Dr. Oehmke then became very sharp against him, but then, since he had the instructions to spare Mr. Wanka, he turned the matter away to the point that he said that Mr. Wanta was just an unpolitical person as an artist and gave him a political "teaching , expressing the hope that Herr Wanka would feel as a German in the future. On my melancholy, Mr. Wanka said to my husband and me: he is standing in the penitentiary with one foot, there is a trial for homosexuality against him, said Mr. Nanka, he has expressed: I may conceal his:homosexual predisposition and past, nowadays one is already with a foot in the prison to the bare fact that one is homosexual! - Since apparently no trial against Mr. Wanka has been carried out at this time, my husband and I, however, have exactly copied the Prussian speech of a prosecutor in the sense described by us, there is the possibility that Mr. Wanta, in order to arouse compassion and to reach my intercession at the theater, sought to present himself as a victim of the German justice system. Mr. Prosecutor Dr. Oehmke then drew to a consultation with Mr. Government Councillor Dr. Mr Danzmann and Mr General-intendant Walleck, after whose course he believed that he had to impose the following comparison on me:"Ms. Wiese explains that she regrets the insults against Mr. Wanka, Mr. Wanta regrets that he used the term "denunciant." On my outraged negation, on the grounds that there is no reason for a comparison, since I made an official report to my superior authority, to which I felt obliged as a German, so that only facts and not insults on my part could be mentioned,