STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 897, sig. 109-4/650

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3a I once again asked a trusted civilian who told me he would lead me. I went with him and he played me in the hands of the police. I was in prison there in Stadelheim prison for a while, but without any punishment, was deported to the Czech border. Although the Czech President had missed all of us from the Free Corps "Sudetenland", from there, my return to the homeland, the tribulations and persecutions on the part of the Czechs began. I fled from my home country again to the kingdom and wandered around the world, came in need and also in bad company of the post-war period. I returned to my homeland to return to my mother, who was still alive at the time, but was arrested by the Czechs and sentenced to two years in prison for high crime and espionage. I was also charged and sentenced for betz and embezzlement in this criminal case. It was small sufferings that I had to make forcibly while fleeing from the Czech. My exoffo defender told me at the time that it was a delusion, that condemnation .and I was only given this high penalty because I was a danger to the Czech state. The misconduct and fraud damage at that time were in some cases amounts of 2o crowns, 8o kr. and the largest amount to my knowledge was 45o kron. I paid off this sentence for 13 months, the rest was given to me conditionally. My further life, - I was pre-punished and could never really gain a foothold at all, I had a position somewhere, were the Czech gendarmes with me or my respective employer a little later and I was my man around and even in the post-war empire I could not prevail, even there I drew some prisons= fines. I have always heard that they have been punished. I don't want to beautify anything, but I have to tell you that I came from an undeserved, pure-Aryan family, and that I have never committed criminal acts out of a tendency to gossip or out of an inner urge. First of all out of my distress and unspeakable misery, I had to be on the other side, as immature and un=