English Translation

S0/ - 5 - to travel freely in the territory of the Protectorate. This intervention is connected with an invitation in Berlin which President Hacha had refused to accept. Even the personal intervention of Baron v.Neurath and that of his lieutenant Frank did not persuade Hacha to go to the imperial capital. In question, it is claimed that the President should go to Berlin to sign the mobilization decree of one million Czechs who should be incorporated into German regiments in relation to one Czech to three Germans." Berne, Havas: " Last night, the Press Office of Wilhelmstrasse told foreign journalists that order and calm reign in the Protectorate. Nevertheless, it has to be admitted that certain measures had to be imposed by the Prague government against insurgent elements." Foreign News, 18.ll.39, No.2: Amsterdan, Havas: "In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia - writes the Dutch newspaper "Het Volk" - a new situation has emerged, the solution of which is difficult to predict, including two. As a result of the demonstrations of October 28th, which occasionally had a number of dead and wounded, and which were thrown into the river by a large number of Gestapo officials. These incidents have far-reaching political consequences. Several hundred arrests were made and Himmler personally appeared in the Protectorate capital. He accused the bosses of the Gestapo, the SS and the SA of not having avoided shootings, because it would have been in the interests of the Reich to give the foreign countries the impression that there is complete peace in Bohemia and Moravia. As a result of the Himmler visit, Baron v.Neurath visited President Hacha in order to inform him of the conditions under which the manifestos could be released. It was a declaration of loyalty by the persons concerned, in order that the bad impression of 28 October could be obscured. The Reichsprotektor proposed the following regulation to Hacha : l.) Revision of the borders in favour of the Czechs on the Polish, Austrian and Bavarian borders. 2.) Conversion of the Protectorate into a republic dependent on Berlin. 3.) Declaration of loyalty of this republic to Germany. 4.) At least symbolic declaration of war to France and England and mobilization of a Czech contingent at the disposal of the German army. Hacha rejected this regulation. The Germans concluded that Hacha should be "something revised" and encouraged him to rest in Lana Castle, where one would watch that he was not disturbed by anyone. It seems, however, that, in view of the bad impression that such a measure would create abroad, it would be averted from the independence of the Protectorate. Hacha and the government will undoubtedly be replaced by Berlin creatures."