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217 11. Panck's recording of an interview with Stuckart of 25.4.1939, NS 2/55, BA. In a report to the State Department dated 4.5.1939, G.F.Kennan estimated the intentions of the Germans almost identically; George Kennan, From Prague after Munich : Diplomatic Papers, 1938-1940, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, p. 147. Cit in: Vojtěch Mastný, Protectorate and fate of the Czech resistance, EUROLEX BOHEMIA s.r.o. , Prague 2003, p. 57. 12.Some authors believe that the Nazis for Bohemia and Moravia have modified the Treaty of Protectorate between France and Tunisia from 1881, according to other comparisons shows only superficial similarities. Compare E.Rouard de card (edd.) Les traités de protectorat conclus par la France, 1870-1895, p. 159-61. Cit in : Vojtěch Mastný, Protectorate and fate of the Czech resistance, EUROLEX BOHEMIA s.r.o., Prague 2003, p. 53. 13. Joseph Goebbels, Tagebücher aus den Jahren 1942-43 mit anderen Documenten, Atlantis Verlag, Zurich 1948, 1. C., p. 322; Alexander Dallin, Deutsche Herrschaft in Russland 1941-1945. Eine Study über Besatzungspolitik, Droste verlag, Düsseldorf, 1958, 1.C., page 70. Cit. in: Heinz Höhne : SS - Elite in the Shadow of Death, Grada Publishing a.s., Prague 2012, p. 398. 14. Neurath served as Ambassador to the Weimar Republic in Rome and London and was Minister of Foreign Affairs in several governments (Papen, Schleicher and Hitler), from there he enjoyed the reputation of a mild and tolerant person in international circles. 15. Albert Speer: I was driving the Third Reich, Grada Publishing a.s., Prague 2010, p. 165. Goebbels had a different opinion and at lunch in Reich Chancellorship he said: "Von Neurath is known as a quiet guy. But the protectorate has a firm hand that keeps order. This man has absolutely nothing to do with us, he belongs in a completely different world." 16. See also Detlef Brandes, Die Tschechen unter deutschen Protectorat, Volume 1, München 1969 p. 28. Cit. in : Chad Bryant: Prague in black, Nazi government and Czech nationalism, ARGO 2012, p. 42. 17. Hermann Rauschning, Makers of Destruction: Meetings and Tolks in Revolutionary Germany, London : Eyre and Spottis wood, 1942, p. 109. Cit in : Vojtěch Mastný, Protectorate and fate of the Czech resistance, EUROLEX BOHEMIA s.r.o. , Prague 2003, p. 56. 18. Vojtech Mastny: Protectorates and fates of the Bohemia, EUROlex BOHEMA s.re., Prague 2003 p. 126. 19. This term is defined in Frank's Confession on page 73, as execution against persons without a judgment, on the basis of a state police finding of facts. This is actually an execution without a trial. Confession by K.H.Frank, Prague 1946, presents his own testimony at the time of the arrest at the Regional Court of Pankrác. The interview was conducted by Gen. Josef Bártík and since Frank declared that he did not control the Czech language, he was questioned in German, but the interrogation protocol was conducted in Czech. 20. DEUTSCHE BANK, Das Protectorat Böhmen und Mähren in deutschen Wurt schafstraum, Berlin 1939, p. 16, 23, 37. Cit in : Chad Bryant : Prague in black, Nazi government and Czech nationalism, ARGO 2012, p. 42.