English Translation

126/3n3 Zosef Zeibrlich Publisher Prague XVI Zborovská 44. Prague the 23rd/IV.1939. 88 Honored Secretary of State! But that another solution to the Czecho-Slovak problem than how it happened could hardly have been possible for a long time had it been clear to me that, for purely strategic reasons, the empire, in the face of the general situation in Europe, could not have done anything other than act.However, when you, Mr. Secretary of State, were recently in Reichenberg, in Kaffee Winkler, asked for my brazen address here for the purpose of coming together, I did not suspect that the tremendous change would take place so soon, and you would come to Prague with such a high position, to which recognition of your services I would like to congratulate. I had been called to Berlin for lunch for the l0.ds.Mts.l2H. to negotiate in the business administration, and after the same had been canceled, and then I learned on the alley from the headless coup of the prag government in Slovakia, I saw the inconceivable acutely ahead of me, and I went back to Prague next day to be with the family, although I should have come to Prague only Tuesday. It would certainly interest you, Mr. Secretary of State, to describe the history of the last three days of the brazen self-employed government, but it is hardly possible by letter. Nor is it the purpose of this letter to you, but the coming. As you may know, I have had relations with high, even the highest, government circles in the country, and I am most strongly committed to the rights of the Sudeten Germans, written in Die "Zeit" and so on.But this too is not to be mentioned in this letter, but the factual and technical knowledge of the political mentality of my people, which I have honoured to you. Mr. Secretary of State would like to make available personally,in the knowledge that this would not mean that I could contribute to a peaceful and excellent integration of the Czechs into the ideo-logy of the German Empire. And I do not see such a big problem in it, because it does not matter what is done, but how it is done.The Czechs themselves are in their own hands. A core of life, one could say ideally docile mass, even today, where each of the thousand-party systems has become really tired, and the Jewish exploitation is satisfied, and accepts everything that is offered to it in a gentle and accessible form. However, at a time such as this, there are enough politically dark elements ready to fish and the work of ideological understanding and mutual adaptation could interfere with my person's full confidence in the goal-conscious and benevolent endeavour of the government of the Protectorate,and I am convinced that the Czech people, as has been the case so often in the Czech Republic, will not be able to do anything about it.