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

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M sought when the first Czech patterning was carried out on Germans in Asch. How many Germans became officers in enemy Wehrmachts, e.g. in the CeR.If a German was not able and did not fully work for that state, he certainly did not become an officer.If one were to proceed as against me the decree speaks, then all those Germans who were officers in foreign Wehrmight must be excluded from the SS, because they have sworn to a foreign head and have practically been raised to become an officer, but the emphasis was that they had to be against Germany lo0%, otherwise they could not be an officer I had been in Abch at the time all duechvölkian clubs,Turkyorein Jahn,Kulturverband üsw.At a social democratic party I was In 1924 until the dissolution by the VSJe2 Czechs in 1933, I was a party member of the German Natie nal Party in Katlsbad. One thing must also be noted that when the sudeten euchen rartei was founded in Asch, the party home in my dormitory was to be raised, but I had to refuse to establish the party chancellery in my own country, so that the other parties could not make the claim that the Sudeten German party was only finished manufacturers, for this would undoubtedly have harmed the party. Furthermore, I have already sund my daughter Gertrud 19a8 in the German Turhstunde to Konrad Henlein /now Gauleiter/ and was a silent guest at all his events./