English Translation

Mlap Haypnfi "Arriba", Madrid, Sunday, April 9, 1944. ganth au thire amt thlapa mhatan) translation. t L0 2 "OBGLEICH IHM OF INTENDMENT TO THE PROTECTION OF THE RECURITY IS IMPORTED, NEN S H T R R N E R H T T S SE was you slehan EUROPA." 4 Luthvdlo yra forms of effectiveness achieved. W Statements by the Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia, senior group leader Frank, to our special superior Nieto Funcia. Picture text: S.Exz. of the Minister for Böhmen and Moravia Karl Hermann Frank, in conversation with the foreign press representatives. On the far left Oskar Ullriah takes over our special representative, who is sitting next to it, the last statement of the minister. bryan The expectation of great war events and the tragic tension of the war itself divert the general interest to some extent from the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. However, this day would be the focus of interest if less unfavourable circumstances would accompany his return. And five years are a sufficient period of time to assess concrete results and, in a sense, to exploit some experience. I have been sent to Bohemia and Moravia to explore on the spot the real situation of the Czech people, as well as the findings of the protectorate regime, the mental attitude of the people and the economic situation. Today I only want to announce the answer I received from Minister of State Frank to three questions that I submitted to him during a visit to the Czernin Palace. Karl Hermann Frank was born in Karlovy Vary in 1898. In his young years he was there and in Prague an employee in the bookstore. In 1933 he joined the Sudeten German movement Konrad Henlein and was elected as a representative of the Karlovy Vary district in 1935. Due to his tireless activity he became sohliesslioh representative Henlein, and when the very tense relations between the former Czechoslovakia and the Reich, just before the Munich conference, caused an immediate outbreak of war to be feared and the Sudeten Germans languished in flocks into the Reichsgebiet, he became chief of the 1x3-3/449