STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393 Page 39 · 39 of 128
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393
English Translation
Seheim Excerpted copy from the blue-meterial of 5.3.1942 L o n d o n - (Czech) - 6.30 pm. It is not a lovely task to go through a gobbly speech. Especially not when it concerns the alleged Bol-shewization of Czechoslovakia. Gobbels once again brings nothing but lies. Göbbels spoke from the mouth of K.H. Frank, the second-largest personality of the Protectorate. Frank claimed that our culture was completely bolshevist before the conclusion. We can only tell him: What do you know about culture? We turn away from his allegations with disgust. He claimed that in the critical time of the events in Munich Benesch had spoken Stalin telephonically and provided Czechoslovakia with him. Litvinov had come to the telephone and had rejected the Bolshevization of Czechoslovakia. He pointed out how close Czech. We have already become accustomed to the lies of Goebbels. But if such a Jdiotism is added, then it is already too much for common sense. Of course, there is no grain of truth in all these assertions. Benesch did not call Stalin or offer him Czechoslovakia. He negotiated only with the Russian envoy Alexan drovsky. The Soviet Union was therefore inclined to fulfil its contract as it was agreed, no more and no less ......... For us there was no Bolshevik danger, for us was only the danger threatening that the Nazi hordes wanted to break over our people. They also did it, than the Chsl. People had to lay down their weapons. At that time, the man and every woman were ever ready for the greatest sacrifices .......