English Translation

Prague, 22.Jänner 1940. N Mr. Primator Dr. O. K l a p ka here. Dear Mr. primator ! Because of no Stuttgart trip I only come back today suf your letter from the 9./l. d.d., in which you shower a number of views, which cannot remain irrefutable. She explained that you had laid down the Krenz at the bust of Baxas only for your person, that it had been an unofficial process and that it was finally only an act of Pietüt. However, it is said in the vider's statement that the Czech food office apparently issued an official message on the basis of a press report from the Magistrate's Bureau, which was printed in all Czech times. Act of fietit against persons who once stood in public life, over this, whether one wants or not, always represent political actions at the same time, of which they certainly originate political intentions. If it is an act of private piety, then it should not be made public at all. Vohl is supposed to stop personal enmity at the grave, but not stop the judgment of history at the tomb and at the dead. On the contrary, only with death does history a person get the necessary distance and freedom to make durable parts of his life's work. na This is without love and hatred, only from the Drangerder knowledge of truth. According to the nature of this judgment, the way of remembering will then have to be shaped. Peßät knows also a zero by the narrowest circle of the relatives claim for itself, a worship by an active in the life of the citizen, however, only the one whose falsification is cheated as right and creative . nderfallo would become the forgery of history.