English Translation

41-60 as well as in blind-winged sabotage files of incited or paid tools, in open and hidden resistances, in omissions, which often weigh as heavily as hostile actions. Heydrich realized that although these groups were a minority of the Czech people, they were a dangerous minority; for the tendency to romantic-magic illusions had been widespread in this area since 1918, and the susceptibility to infections of this kind had to be highly estimated. But it was precisely for the spread of this infection that Benesch was paid by the English, because the more people were infected, the easier the saboteurs had to be found for the purposes of the British sniper strategy. Only a quick operational access could prevent the spread. With calm safety Heydrich went to this operation. At that time the Czechs did not yet know what a derision would have meant for them. Human acts the one who, after careful research of all possibilities, accomplishes the necessary with the slightest sacrifice. Any delay in the intervention had also reduced the chances of success of the operation with the enlargement of the infection, even a long period of debriefing could only have ended with a complete catastrophe of the Czech people. It was humane to avert this catastrophe in a timely manner — and because sooner or later this would have been recognized by the Czechs, it was sought to eliminate the successful surgeon. The measures taken by Heydrich against saboteurs and pushers were intended to protect the Czech people; firstly, from exploitation as an English tool, by hard-handedly depriving the dangerousness of coquetting with the Benesch 75