STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2554, sig. 109-12/201

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- 52 - D i e Volkss t i mmung Benesch once boarded a plane to personally convince himself of the popular mood in the Third Reich. Everywhere he shouted "Heil Hitler" out of the air, people raised their hands and a thousand throats shouted back to him "Heal Hitler!" Then he gave the order to return. "If he knew that we were over the Sudeten Germans? thought the plane was with him.