English Translation

with which Heydrich recognized the most dangerous opponents in all illegal apparatus in political instinct, with which he ordered measures beyond the necessity of an executive cleansing. In these weeks, apart from the restrictions on blocking hours, it may hardly have occurred to an outside observer that he was witness to the suppression of a planned stand-up attempt. No associations of the Wehrmacht or the police have marched, nor have there been armed clashes. Heydrich's blow was also not directed against the crowd of fellow runners, who were only the product of illegal incitement. He grabbed the heads of the attack and thus the main pests, however, regardless of the rank of the state offices they held. The outcome of the trial against Prime Minister Elias, whose extensive confession as well as the standing trial against a number of generals and officers of the former Czecho-Slovak army, against high ministerial officials down to the small unlearnable fanatics, proved the security of access. Since the Jew had also proved to be the Bacillus of any political destruction within the framework of this resistance work, this question was also taken up with all consequences and the identification of the Jews and their accommodation in ghettos was decreed. After a few weeks, not only could the immediate task be solved and the serious threat to safety be removed, but it was also possible, despite the harshness of the measures, to call for positive and understandable votes in the Czech people, albeit initially isolated.