GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 989, sig. 110-9/5 (damaged)

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65 - 19 - I am firmly convinced, however, that at the moment I would have an extraordinarily difficult situation if any foreigner could find Bingang among the Czech population. The Czech would immediately conspire with every Englishman, Frenchman, Belgianman, Italianman, South-Sla- who or even Russians and Eastern workers in Beertekloueet and with my peace and order it would be over. 5. After all, I did not carry out any hostage measures on a large scale. On the basis of the principle that hostage measures are actually only a mere safety-police failure, and with regard to the great kinship and pecanship that each hostage possesses, I have in general excluded an army of avengers. However, I have always and at every hour eliminated the perpetrators and helpers in the broadest sense and under certain circumstances with the most brutal means in the fastest way. We still have about a hundred death sentences per month and can access with lightning fast and sharpest possible with special treatment where the Reich is working against it. We have, however, become accustomed to Bareamrebnafegem Fepilrr, deen as before to cling to the big bell and to put it out into the world through press and radio, which only gave the gegtner the opportunity to polemize for days or even weeks against us on the radio and make the world believe, in Bohemia and Moravia it burns lighterloh, i everywhere is revolt and we could only keep ourselves above the water by constant machine gun fire or even by artillery and air bombs. Today,