English Translation

- 3 - to educate our national defenders to regard themselves from the outset as "war victims " and to awaken a pension psychosis among them, so we lost the next war before it began. "Gemeinnutz geht vor Selbstutz." Also the Gauamt for war victims in Reichenberg should refrain from advertising methods, which might bring him a considerable increase in members, but are absolutely harmful to the people. For the Nazi Reichskriegerbund, when the Sudetenland was annexed, the division according to Wehrkreisen was territorially still valid, which coincides with that of the SS upper sections. My instruction was accordingly that I had to carry out this Eintéilúng also in the SuDetengau. So I provided that the Egerland as an area of the Karlovy Vary Weir Replacement Inspection to the Main Region ( Wehrkreis XIII ), the Silesian-Märischen Kreise to the Landesgebiet Südost ( Weirkreis VIII ) and the intervening part with the Gauhauptstadt Reichenberg to the Landgebiete Elbe ( Werkreis IV ) should enter. When I presented this proposal to the Gauleiter Konrad Henlein, I stood up for resistance. He said that the Sudeten area was new territory, where not everything needed to be done as in the Old Kingdom. One could do some things differently and better on the basis of the experiences made in the latter. I felt that the Gauleiter was a summary of all the former. Soldiers of his Gaues in a single association outside the Nazi Reichskriegsbund under the leadership of the Ing. Staffen, to whom he had already made this commitment, preferred my proposal. Whether he had the plan to assign this association to the Nskov even then, is not my knowledge, but is quite likely. In my report on the situation in the Sudetengau, you, Reichskriegerführer, appeared on 12 January 1939 in Reichenberg. In a consultation with Konrad Henlein you agreed that although the intended three-part was to fall, since a territorial alignment of the Nazi Reichskriegsbund to the political Gaue had been decided throughout the Reichsgebiet, that now in the Gau Sudetenland a Gaukriegerverband was to be set up in the Nazi Empire War Federation under my leadership. Ing. Staffen, whose hope of being called to the head of the former soldiers to be destroyed for the time being, received the same message on the same day. From that day on, I certainly had a certain claim to loyal support by the Gauleitung in carrying out my task. Not only did she fail, but I still feel the counter-effect of Gauleitung at every step today. Her executive body is Ing. Staffen, who had already begun an extraordinary active advertising activity for NsKóv prior to his appointment as head of the Gauamt in the above-mentioned sense.