STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 633, sig. 109-4/381

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English Translation

Excerpt from the interview report of January 3, 1942 Sender London - l8,3o Uhr - t s c h e c h i s ch . Within the framework of the so-called Czech-German cooperation we are now bringing you a radio play. The main actors are the German Minister of Economic Affairs of the Protectorate Government Bertsch and the Czech Minister for National Culture Moravec. (This radio play can only be summarized because of the strong interferences that occurred in this part of the programme) The radio play begins with Minister Moravec joining Minister Bertsch and, after politely welcoming Hitler's grudge, presenting his request to him. (Bertsch spoke German and then again and again in between Czech, the German with an overly Prussian appeal). Moravec wants to read to Bertsche a proposal which he himself has put together, namely an application for the establishment of a Czech German-speaking organisation, which is to appear in the Czech public in the context of German-Czech cooperation and to make propaganda. This organization is supposed to take the name "activist" (activity clarifies, beginning the Unko brought Bertsch). Name Re mentions it as possible, first to advertise new members and secondly to participate in the reconstruction of a new Europe in the sense of German-Czech cooperation. Bertsch is with all of this - 2 -