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26 -4- in a single "Sudetendeutsche Soldatenbunde" to summarize in April l938 to B.Leipa despite the greatest resistance and difficulties has largely succeeded. Compared to the claim that I had no positive performance for the former soldiers, stand the words Oberstit. Tittelbachs . Finally, I should like to point out that the Front Fighter Federation itself had never succeeded in involving the regiment federations (the 42s, 92s, pioneers, cavalryists, etc.) in the Front Combatant League and may book it as my positive achievement to have carried out this integration in April l938 to B.Leipa.I am firmly convinced that otherwise it would not have happened again. Unfortunately, the frontmen never had much left for the war victims. They have allowed it for many years that the war injured sat in the road ditches and begged their healthy comrades for the various frontmen's meetings. I have had these war-stricken comrades gathered from the road ditches as guests of honour for the festival and consider the removal of this reproach, which was exemplary, after all also as a positive achievement. I don't want to touch too much on the past, but I can still advise the Gaukriegerführer to use words like "bloody dilletantism" with the utmost caution, since through an objective examination of the organizational performance, the term could very easily fall back on those that apparently advised the Gau Kriegerfänger so well. The claim that I had left unfinished my own voluntary duties, such as the establishment of a front fighter village group in Prague, proves a lively imagination on the other hand. The "German Front Fighter League" had at least had time to set up a front fighters' comradeship in Prague for the 20 years, but did not do so. It is true that I had voluntarily declared myself willing to establish such a front fighter comradeship in Prague and have also issued calls in this regard in the "time", however, I received the local group statutes necessary for the formation of the foundation, the association statutes and the declaration of approval for the establishment of the local team in Prague , as well as the registrations requested by me after repeated invitation from the federal leadership in Reichenberg, drawn Colonel Tittelhach and of Clanner, only - what I can ever prove at present - by letter vóm lO September, i.e. on September 1st to Prague, while I, what I already mentioned, left Prague on September 4th 1938. In spite of the relatively short period of time in which I certainly tried honestly to fulfil my mission with the necessary momentum, I got an idea of the hard work required for the formation of a soldier's federation, especially when I first had to use all my strength to agree upon the higher officers who did not trust each other, while the crew went almost all in order. While the organisation of the "Societies of Servant Soldiers" following the really laborious and thorough work of the comrade Ritschel, Schmiedeberg, was an exemplary one, this could be done by