STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2357, sig. 109-12/2

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62 I have refuted why I had to refuse my official accession to the Sudeten German party also mentions the fact that at that time the Farteikanzlei was to be raised in my residence in Asch. It is also clear that I led my blind father who could hardly walk to the ballot box for Konrad Henlein. It is probably no doubt that my information would be untrue. I know nothing else than that I have taken my stand on the sudeten German party differently from 1 September 1937. I did not put myself in a preeminent light at the construction management in Nuremberg and made fuzzy statements about my virtuousness in the SudetenGerman Freikorps. I expressly declare that this corresponds to the facts that I had been with you during the taking of Voh Eget under the leadership of the lieutenant-general Künzel d, although I had not been able to draw a gut cartilage a day before as a horch post to the Sorghof in question. Anyone who wants to prove the opposite to me in this respect is an obvious slanderer. In my opinion, I would point out that Dr. Adam, head of the circle, personally saw the picture in my apartment in Beneschau, which was taken by the Führer, my comrades and I, who were the first in Eger at the time. There will certainly be many pictures of this kind to provide even more evidence about this.For this purpose, I will write a copy of the confirmation of the sudetenGerman ./