GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 757, sig. 110-5/47

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83 167/320/2l 4./....could have such catastrophic consequences,because too late help could already be unactueli. We like new ones our very urgent demand and ask you for immediate intervention, 168/325/21 5./ because in the negative case we could take no responsibility for the further development. We expect impatiently your answer. With the sign of our devotion. The Slovak National Council. 28.9.19441 133/355/26 As to your request of 29 September regarding government reconstruction and the appointment of the commander of the Czech Army in Slovakia, we give you the following statement: The sending of General Viest 134/300/26 l./to Slovakia took place by direct request from Slovakia from 1.9. and as a result of the complaints of 5 September. and ll.9. It was expressly requested that General Viest take command 135/315/26 2./ about the fighting in Slovakia. The President considered it necessary to continue to comply, he called on General Viest to go to Ślovakia, appointed him commander and appointed 136/280/26 3./ at the same time all Slovak fighting units to the Šg army. The entrustment of the Ge- neral Viest demanded his renunciation of his position in the government, because the commander 137/360/26 4./of units of troops under the government cannot be simultaneously a member of this government during the duration of the exercise of his commanding post. The General Viest was informed by General Ingr telegraphically of 8.9.44 to Moscow. 138/270/26 5./ Concerning Gen. Ingr_then the matter is as follows The Čs-Republic, which is already 4 years in the state of war with the states of the axis, established in the year 1994l according to ...... 141/340/26 9./ It was therefore determined that in the view in which the activity of the superior commander really begins these /emter/ are divorced. The president decided that the appropriate moment had come when 142 was missing. 143 was missing; 144/325/26 c./.....requires that the war will not take long and that it will be necessary to transform the foreign government into a common home country, and that the president and the government will have to do so ....... /further sayings are missing!/ 234/310/26