English Translation

35 Security Service of the Reichsführer-4f Prag-Bubentsch, 21.10 1944. SD section Prague Sachsenweg telex 60141, 77841, Czernin 3911-19 L EAE secret 1.) To 44-upper group leader Minister of State K.H. Fr a n k CEO Prague 2.)' Message: re2 88b ed e To the commander of the security police and the SD 4 standart leader Dr. W e n m a n n Prag ARA 3.) Message: To the Head of the Department of Food and Agriculture in the German Ministry of Bohemia and Moravia Dr. Ernst S c h m i d t Prag P Betr.: Amnesty for Czech farmers. Preliminary discussion on 18.lo.44 noon. On the question of the leave of imprisonment, Amnestyia and penalties for farmers, the agricultural editor-in-chief J e ž e k explained to a local guarantor in confidential discussions of these days the following: When he put together the Minister's speech for the opening of the harvest together with Ing. Zankl, this question had also been cut. It was discussed between him and Zankl whether and in what form the envisaged Amnesties of Czech farmers should be spoken in the speech. The matter was then formulated as follows:"In this year, farmers who were punished or still punished as a result of minor offenses are also used to salvage the harvest, with which their punishment was lost (in Czech: odpykati). Ing. Zankl von Ježek explained the Czech term "odpykati" (returned) exactly in his mind. So it was 1578/43/160