English Translation

The fact that everything had united with us in the election of Hácha. He wished Hákha, under his leadership, to find out the Czech people quickly and well from his threatening situation at that time. Dr. Benesch did not give advice against his other habit, Dr. Hacha, because he himself had reached the end with his mind. In fact, as a semi-critical man, he had no doubt to acknowledge that the Bohemian countries threatened by England and France could hold themselves in no other way than by the adoption of the German Protectorate on 15 March 1939. At that time, the Bohemian countries simply returned to the lap of the German Empire after a futile, twenty-year-long political wandering, after England, France and Soviet Russia disdained Czech friendship and cruelly disappointed the Czech faith in the allegiance of these states. Nor did the fact that the former Czechoslovak Republic had provided 40 well-equipped divisions against Germany and had completed extensive border fortifications and even wanted to serve the whole eastern part of Central Europe against Germany with its rich industry. As soon as England felt that the Mohr had done his duty, he could also leave. I believe that there was not a sign of dignity of a People are looking for new help where they have been shamefully deceived and cheated. Therefore, the Czechs have already settled with England in Munich. From this point on, only the sincere reconciliation with the German people and the unification with the Great German Empire, which had assured us of an extensive cultural autonomy and a number of remarkable, mainly economic and social advantages, could be the goal of Czech politics. The outbreak of this war has only temporarily disrupted the peaceful growth of the Bohemian countries into the Great German Empire. Dr. Benesch suddenly forgot, as already mentioned, our President Dr. Hácha congratulated him on his appointment on 30 November 1938 and declared himself the valid president of England's grace, the England that had coldly shown his back in 1938. A concentrated canonade of British propaganda about the Bohemian countries was poured out. Dr. Benesch and the emigrants around him, including not a few Jews, began to call on the Czech people on the radio for sabotage and other acts directed against the German Reich; for example, the Czechs were incited to boycott the Czech press, which wrote in the Reich's idea. The incitement eventually reached such a dangerous level that it did not even deter a political murder: a number of leading editors became 18 19