Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1001, sig. 110-10/3

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English Translation

1M : This is mainly occupied in Czech. At the head of the eutononist leadership is the President Háche, who was unanimously elected on 30 November 1988, i.e. in the Czechoslovak Republic, with only abstention of the Communists, with a unanimous vote which had not reached a Czech president before him and which was also recognized by his predecessor Beneß by a letter of congratulations. Under President Dr. Hácha is the pre-tocrat government. at its head as Chairman Justice Minister Professor Dr. Krejcy, who was already Minister of Justice in the second republic. Czech Minister of Interior Bienert is an old Czech police officer who was the police president of Prague from l9l8 to 1925 and later became the country president of Bohemia. Dr. Bertsch, an expert placed by the Reich, is the only German in the government of the Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour. Especially in the economic field, where the risk of limiting the autonomous political, economic and cultural interests is least, was the greatest need to establish a close cross-link with the German authorities. The Minister of People's Enlightenment and Education Moravec is a former Chief of General Staff from Bene's time and a well-known publicist. In addition, the government of the Czech Minister of Agriculture Hruby, a long-standing leader of Czech farmers, from the Regional Cultural Council, the Czech Ministry of Transport and Technology Dr. Kamenicky, who had previously been Head of Sector at the Ministry of Transportation in Prague for many years, and finally the Minister of Finance Kalfus, who was already in this position in 1963. I have just listed these things to show you the right of the Czech protectorate government to be considered legal and that what is happening to the emigrants is ridiculous to her. The members of the current government are, to a large extent, men who have been in office for years before the establishment of the protectorate, who have realized that the path of President Hácha is the only possible one politically, and have now concluded that this path is consistently honest and sincere. In this circle, it is of particular interest that the Ministry of People's Enlightenment, to which not only the individual sections of culture and propaganda with the corresponding sections belong, but also a large press section, which