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to give up the profession I had studied and I became the business
manager of a printing plant, which position I kept for 16 years.
During
the war I started out as a private in a Hungarian infantry regiment (I know
Hungarian), and was awarded several decorations. I left the service as a
lieutenant in charge of a company.
Since 1926 I have been a registered
member of the Nazi Party, whose ideology I advocate also outside my private
life. As a result, I lost the above-mentioned position in March 1936, mainly
due to political intrigues. Moreover, I served four years as local group leader
(Ortsgruppenfuehrer) until the Party was dissolved in Czechoslovakia.
I
am now faced with the problem, being 42 years old and the head of a family, to
seek a new livelihood. I am not one of those who simply emigrate to Germany
and, boasting of their more or less long Party membership demand a job —
because I am of the opinion that we Sudeten Nazis still have to accomplish a
mission at home, which at present too must be continuously fulfilled.
This is difficult and impossible for me to do without a job. Being 42
years old, it would be completely hopeless, considering present economic
conditions in this country, to leave it up to chance when looking for a
position in which I could utilize my experience and qualifications.
However, I do see a chance for making a living again due to the
following situation:
Here in my home city of Reichenberg there
is the main branch office of "TEFA A.G." This is a trading organization for the
sale in Czechoslovakia of products made by I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. Frankfurt.
The directors (the Vorstand of the corporation) are mostly German citizens.
Nonetheless, the leading executives manifest completely negative views
concerning the conceptions of the New Reich, and the higher officials show
everything else but a Nazi attitude, in brief, conditions are such that an
agency concerned felt the need of reporting this matter to a higher Party
office in Germany. The apparent, though amazing result of this report was the
fact that a higher official, who was mentioned by name in the report, was
transferred with a substantial increase in salary to the Prague branch office
of "TEFA A.G."
Being known as a "Nazi" in the political circles of
Reichenberg, a city of 35,000 inhabitants, my employment application,
therefore, had even less prospects of success.
With the aid of our
former Sudeten Party Leader, engineer Rudolf Jung, now a lecturer at the
University for Politics in Berlin, who knows me personally, I turned to the
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