English Translation

The security service RFK Prague, 29.11.1943 SD-Leitabschmitt Prag 24 MAt Mfnm Heevg ApEing.: 19. APR. 1944 1-Obergruppenführer bee.Biied. (Minister of State K.H. Frank s) Prag 30. NOV. 1943 Division IV (Rulturpolitik): Eing. 2 7. IIJ. 1944 finlagen. 3. Betr.: Ant.Štefánek: "Slovakia before and during the overthrow." Ann.: 1 The following lecture is particularly interesting because it is the first of the previously translated lectures by representatives of the Czech World War Maffia to address the Slovak question. Štefánek, advocate of the "Czechoslovak" unity, describes historically the Volcanic development of the Slovaks in the pre-World War II Hungary; dábei he emphasizes in particular the work performed by individual Slovak forces against the Magyars by the Volkish awakened, but also speaks openly of the many setbacks caused by the political inconsistency of Slovakism in the time of the World War. He gives valuable information on the denationalization efforts of the Magyars, who met not only the Slovaks, but also the other ethnic groups living in Hungary in the same way. He deals particularly closely with the time of the so-called Slo-Wacian revival, which ran roughly parallel with the "Völkischer Rebirth" of the Chechnya in Bohemia and Moravia, where it is only possible, he tries to show parallels with the development of the Czechs. In the overall result he must admit, although unspoken, that the connections between Czechs and Slovaks were not very intense before the World War. Only in the last years before 19l4 the interest for Slovakia grew with the Czechs. At that time Štefánek carried out agitation trips in Bohemia and Moravia to highlight the "Czechoslovak unity". Here Štefanek also brings more details about the Panslawiştic aspirations, which emerged particularly crazily at that time, Štefánek ends with remarks about the mostly passive volcanic work done in the Slovak territory during the World War. Interesting are his references to the cooperation with the Czech illegal exponents such as Dr. Kramař and Dr. Rašin. Although the lecture naturally deals mainly with the Slovak-Magyar conflict of the l9 and beginning of the 20th century, it is also interesting for the conditions in Bohemia and Moravia, especially since it clearly points out the manifold aspirations of the Czechs and "Czech-Slovak" oriented Slovaks to work with all means at the internal decomposition of the Danube monarchy. In the treatment of the Czech maffia of the World War, everything that played outside Bohemia and Moravia is only too easily forgotten, in this respect Štefánek's statements are still particularly revealing today. eg. Yes c o b i F.d.R.: 44-Obersturmbannführer { 44-SturmbannsführER √F-23e/4 St.M.