STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23 Page 31 · 31 of 157
STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23
English Translation
A 4 30 had doubts that it was the English. I talked to two gentlemen, one of them a uniformed Nazi. The Nazi was almost fanatically excited and he pro- phezeit England, that it will now know what German planes could do. Now one should see for once. what the German soldier could. I myself cannot make a picture. I also have no explanation for the assassination myself. Only so much can I say: It will not take long and this thing will show its consequences. Whoever it may have been, the German people wonder: what forces are behind this assassination and what forces have managed to deceive Himmler's Gestapo or hide it from her, that the matter will begin? Furthermore, I cannot confess to the view that the assassination could have been something like a second Reichstag fire. After all, I would like to draw attention to a point of view: Hitler has often been forced to make a decision by any acts of violence. Is that not possible to provide an explanation for this attack? The German people are more than ever uncertain about the future. It is against the war. It wishes that it may not burn in full strength in the West. But it is helpless and has no influence on development. Only when very big events occur in this war will the people move. It waits for the time being in dull devotion. 2. Report: When the customer of the Munich assassination came, it was not quite easy for the little man to find his way around. There was a rain of rumors, motivating measures, suspicions on him, which he had not previously thought of in remote testing. Secret Service. State enemies, yes, was there anything like that in the Third Reich at all? And if the Englishman throws bombs here, how does he get through the chains of the overpowering German political police? What are the enemies of the state in the united empire? German propaganda quickly relieved the little man with her heavy guns of the necessity of answering all these complicated questions. The fact that she was able to prevail so quickly was mainly due to one circumstance. The idea of the boat in which everyone is sitting is too widespread and the credibility in the promises of the war opponents that have already been given is too profoundly shaken that the said "little man" might have a desire for the bomb to have its effect. On the other hand, it is said that such an attack can never meet all the "leaders" at once and that's why it is pointless.