English Translation

? The commander of the security police and the SD 22 June 22 Prague, the. 0 XIX, Kaßlanienallee 19 Tgb. Mr. B. D. S.- I - Please indicate the trade mark and date given in reply. To the Secretary of State i-Group Leader K.H. Fr a n k - personally - Prague. Subject: Promotion of the #-Obersturmbannführer Chief Director Dr. G i e s to the Ministerial Council. As early as 18.12.1941 -Obergruppenführer H e y d - r i c h had decreed that Dr. G i e s should be promoted to the Ministerial Council. All the services in question, in particular the party chancellery and the Reich Finance Ministers, have no doubts about the promotion. Instead, in his letter of 22 April 1942, the Secretary of State Pfundtner allowed himself to take a position which, although the party chancellor or the security service is entitled to, is not Mr Pfundner, who is likely to be decisively responsible for the collapse of the Ministry of the Interior due to the policy of civil servants which he conducted. If you, as the immediate superior of H-Obersturmbannführer Dr. G i e s, the H-Upper Group Leader H e y d r i c h as the most extreme representative of national socialist aspects and the party chancellor win this promotion, Mr. Pfundtner, Secretary of State, cannot contradict this with general remarks. In particular, it is strange that at Gies, born 1902, the young age is accused, while at the same time with Mr Hufnagel, born 1905, these thoughts obviously do not apply.