English Translation

hy K. M. B. 1 9 3 8 In Catholic regions, the day before the three-king, the initial letters of the biblical names Kaspar, Melchior and Balthasar are written with chalk on the door; each saint is further attached a little cross and the year number is still old at the end. K + M + B 1 9 3- 8 was often interpreted in the Sudetenland glso: "Kramarsch tot, Masaryk dead, Benesh---".