English Translation

Speech 4es State Secretary- SS group leader Karl Hermann- F-r a n k ver der domestic and foreign press im Hetel Kaiserhof, Berlin, on 8 April 1940. ounner? I gladly accepted the invitation of the publishing house "Volk und Reich" to speak to you today (on the occasion of the publication of the first issue of our new magazine "Böhmen und Mähren") as its editor. With the partial ignorance of the true conditions in the young state, which was connected to the GressGerman Reich for a little more than a year, and with the much confused rumors that are constantly spread by the foreign radio and the foreign press about the conditions in Bohemia and Moravia, it seemed obvious to us to support the daily publications of the press with a representative Menatsschrift in value and image. Today we put the first issue of the magazine "Böhmen und Mähren" in your hands and ask you to take note of it and from now on use it constantly for your information. The magazine wants to make the preblems known and highlight in all important areas of the Pretekterat, the pelitic and state law, the economic and cultural Pelite, but also the unfortunately little known and intimate historical and Pelite links between the two countries of Bohemia and Moravia and the empire and those of the two peoples, the German and the Czech, among themselves. From the resulting recognition, however, we will clarify and support our political right to the re-integration of the old imperial lands of Bohemia and Moravia into the Gress-German Empire.