English Translation

B.On 30 Prague, 28 March 194o, 5:45 p.m. serdem CUTON Soeben called me Gauleiter Wächtler from med Klattau and told me the following: He personally convinced himself of the situation in this area during the day in the murder case of Smutek against the two German customs officers, V, and repeatedly and unambiguously stated that the previous failure of the perpetrator could only be explained by the assistance of the Czech Bevölker Fsmütel in the area. He was personally of the opinion, based on the experience gained, that the Czech population of this area did not only sabotage all the aid provided by the authority, but repeatedly actively assisted the perpetrator so that he could hide himself. If this were not the case, the perpetrator must have long ago been out of his hiding place from hunger and had been seized by the strong search squads. It was perfectly clear that the perp had repeatedly changed clothes and received food from the population. Gauleiter Wächtler had also personally convinced himself several times that a large part of the population was visibly happy about the act of Smutek. He had noticed how large crowds of people in the streets and alleys are happily together and, when Germans appear, grin. He considers this situation to be extremely serious and worrying and today, six days after the act, clearly a great loss of prestige of the empire. Taking into account these circumstances, he asked me to do so under all circumstances.