English Translation

47 - 2 - of the Free Corps, which was set up within ten days from these refugees and reached the number of 40,000 men. On 20 August 1943 the leader decreed the creation of the State Ministry of Bohemia and Moravia and appointed Frank to its leadership. This office has its very specific character and cannot be compared to any similar one existing in us. The Minister of State is practically the highest instrument of the Reich government in the Protectorate. Above it stands in a representative function of the Imperial Protector, who is currently held by Dr.Frick, the former Minister of the Interior. The Minister of State SS=Obergruppenführer K.H.Frank hooh is growing and harrowing, persevering, the face shows hard traits, which, however, cannot take the perfect expression of authority and firmness a natural lie. At the handshake of the introduction, his energizing gaze holds the face or eyes of the presented a few moments in his spell. Oskar Ullrich acted as an interpreter, using his perfect knowledge of the English language in the interviews of Konrad Henlein and Lord Runciman, the English envoy and mediator between the Sudeten Germans and the Czechoslovak government. I feel full of respect for Minister Gebrauoh's approach: what is the reason or satisfactory explanation for the lack of Czech nationality, which prevents them from becoming soldiers of the German army? Is it not possible to call it a deplorable measure, a contempt of the Czech army, or an attempt to get rid of their habit, lust or morale to carry arms? At the sohlueae of this war, the czech people could not have the consciousness to have fought. - The Czechs have lost their independent state, they have experienced great political upheavals and stormy times; therefore they have suffered a moral choque of far-reaching importance, which does not allow them to immediately participate in the creative tasks of the new European order. For twenty years, the Tachech people have been alienated from the German people and from the new interpretations, a reason which made it advisable to take a transitional period between the old situation and the new regime of integration into the empire. On the other hand, in the army of the Czechoslovak Republic, the Sudeten-Germans could not become officers, except for one percentage, because they were mistrusted. And people of German origin were also not admitted to the service of special weapons.