English Translation

But the man of a state-creating initiative. This attitude explains the serious efforts for an orderly development of Czech national life. Thus it is also to be understood that Heydrich, as the man who was probably forced to take the most serious and harsh measures towards the Czech people, showed him the Wenceslas tradition as a constructive and political thought, that historical teaching which had already been the only life-supporting concept for the Czech People a thousand years ago. The solemn act in the Wenceslas Chapel of the Prague Castle of 19 November 1941, in which the President Dr. Hácha handed over the seven keys of the coronation chamber to the Deputy Reich Protector and retained three of them to faithful hands, symbolically sealed the opening relationship of trust between Reinhard Heydrich and the President. The Deputy Reich Protector received the Czech press repeatedly, because he was interested in a truthful interpretation of his measures in public, in order to get the population of Bohemia and Moravia into a growing relationship of trust. The results of the measures in the social and agricultural fields show how far this has been achieved. In the fight against fraud, he had already advocated the principle that the stocks concerned should be of particular benefit to the working population, since they had primarily been withdrawn from it. Therefore, he preferred to equip the farm canteens by allocating confiscated food. In addition, he examined in detail the question of the wage problem, nutrition 35