English Translation

3V - 2T - The defendant also claimed and proved that he had always advocated an agreement between the Czechs and the apaa dap aa S an dt a pun Paaa aoda schen at the government in the ČSR since l936. Therefore, he had been opposed and persecuted because of his positive attitude towards the German people in secretive lelse. He had also been a strong opposition to former Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs and later President Beneš, who had called in particular against Beneš's foreign policy and the connection with the Western powers Stel Saa a-a Ba S p Co B to the GropGerman Empire, which he considered to be a prerequisite for the peaceful development of the Czech people. He also opposed the election of Beneš to the president of the Czechoslovak Republic after the resignation of President Masaryk in l936, and set up a counter-candidate in the person of Czech-Citizen professor Dr. Němec, in the t ta p Ra Caaad aa aa gen. Only a last-minute change in the mood of the Slovak People's Party (the so-called Hlinka Party) which did not comply with the agreements reached was due to the fact that Be- nes was still elected as President. The defendant also appealed to have pointed out in an editorial a st a kov" of 1 January l938 that millions of Germans live in the Czech Republic in direct connection with the Great German Reich and that these facts call for a good relationship with the Germans in Czech Slovakia and, on the other hand, with the German Reich, whereby the article literally stated: "We want an agreement with Germany at the price of all concessions." In the critical September days of Janres l93e, the accused had turned himself to the most decisively against the war plotters and had come into sharp contradiction with Beneš. The defendant was the one who had suggested to the President of the Republic, Dr. Hacha, to follow the path of immediate consultation with the Puhrer, which eventually led to the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.