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23 Ing. Rudolf Staffen Gauamtleiter der NSDAP und Gauobmann der NsKov. Statement on the memorandum of the Gaukriegerführer Oberst a.D., Freiherrn von der Goltz I have to say the following to the letter above: I. " Konrad Henlein called the Sudeten Germanism to the collection in opposition to the Czech rule" already on October 1, 1933. The 4 frets mentioned in the memoir have by no means made themselves available as such until the formation of the " Sudetendeutsche Soldatenbund" which took place in April 1938 at B.Leipa, as Freiherr von der Goltz erroneously cites, Konrad Henlein On the contrary : the individual frets, with the exception of the R.e.K. (Reichsvereinigung erhem. POWs in which party leader Willy Kinschner was successful in asserting himself against the chairman Kunze, who today plays a role in the Kyffhäuserbund, who resisted the SdP's intentions to summarize. In the "German Front Fighters' League - The Homeland Sons in World War II" even efforts were underway to avoid such a summary. Proof: The front fighters of the then Gaues Egerland, who were under the leadership of the SdP, stood in sharpest opposition to the Reichenberg leadership of this Front Fighting League; likewise the Gaue Böhmerwald and the Gau der 88er. Also in Moravia there were opposition circles, which demanded an affiliation to the SdP. This opposition was led by the following comrades: Major a.D., former Senator Ludwig Frank, dzt. General-Luftschutz-führer, Marienbad, Freiherr Dr.von Tischer, Ritter des Maria-Theresien-Ordens, Heinrioh Wacker, Gauobmann Pleier Karlsbad, u.s.w. These circles repeatedly demanded the resignation of the federal leadership of the Front Fighter League in Reichenberg. To prove these claims, I present two letters of the then senator, Major a.D. Ludwig Frank, addressed to the main leadership of SdP. for inspection.(In one of these documents, it is said that the Front Combater League leadership is the trust of the membership of the Sd P. Heinrich Wacker expressed himself even sharper.) I can make further documents available by request. II. It is correct that Colonel Tittelbach opposed a closed mission of the front fighters in the fight of the SdP. the rights of the Sudeten German ethnic group, because it feared a dissolution by the Czech government