English Translation

20 Speech f+8 % e s s t a t s s ek r et ä r s FranX in Budweis on 4 June 1939 Crnmd? When the leader took home the Sudetenland in October of last year, he stood over there at the Schöninger and looked into the wide country to the north and also into the Mau- ern of this city, which he once became acquainted with as a German city in his youth. Budweis had to remain in the foreign state outside the Rei- chen. Today, hardly eight months later, the old Reichslande Bohemia and Moravia are integrated into the Grossdeutsche Reich, swastika banners blow over the country and the marching steps of the German NS sound through the streets of Budwei. With this last great act of the Führer - the establishment of the Protectorate, the oldest historical and natural ties have been restored and the hope is given to a calm and spooky self- and cohabitation of the peoples of Bohemia and Moravia. The Führer's deed also means a complete reorganization in this area and a new epoch of the political, economic and finally the cultural life of these countries and peoples, freed from foreign slags, in the framework of the Great German Empire. The will of the Führers, clearly in his at the castle of Prague on the 1st of May. In March, decrees on the establishment of the Protectorate were issued and the power of the Empire was guaranteed for the healthy and happy development of Bohemia and Moravia. Today, we Germans are overjoyed that the Führer has filled what we hardly thought possible and yet have always longed for. Even in the time of our heaviest and toughest fights, when we are defenceless wild game in the foreign state