English Translation

III B - PA 2/42 Th Vfg.E 85 Betr.i T Ohnie Mntliesiger Wahrsaar rl1 dich on 9.9.1943 with Genert G a j d a about the capitulation of Italy and its influence on the further warfare. Gajda said, among other things, that the dissolution of the fascist party did not have a sinking effect. on the continuation of the Fascist idea. This idea was so profound that it meant a certain idea which could not be destroyed by the dissolution of the organization that Italian fascism had been a new direction in political life during the chaotic conditions of weak democracy and the increasing comuni- amy and had meant discipline, work, destruction and decomposition of post-war democracy. In spite of the terrible persecution, persecution and resistance of thousands of supporters, he had gained his important position and even a parliamentary representation. He himself had been punished eleven times by a political court, countless times he had been arrested, degraded and destroyed by the police. His assets were confiscated, his bourgeois assets were withdrawn from him, and a trial was also initiated against him simply because he had taught fascist ideas and had acted against lasaryk and Benesh and against the entire ruling system. For him, therefore, the dissolution of the fascist party meant only a formal administrative measure which had no influence on the fascist idea. The idea of Czech fascism also continued to exist, to whom it had no organizational form at the present time, and in this idea even today its supporters were unerschiltlich united. At the time of the greatest terror under l a s a r y k and B e n e s c h his supporters would have given l80 000 ballot papers \F=9+4$