THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1120, sig. 110-11/58

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The Reichsprotektor. St.S. 331 a/43. V 2.) Strictly confidential! 19. VII. 1943 To the state president in Moravia -Reichsbeauftragsverwaltung- in Brno. Betr.: Natur- und Wildreservierung Groß-Seelowitz. Vorg.: There. Vorlage vom 18.ll.v.Js. - Zeichen Nr. PA-4520- 142 In the case referred to at the outset, I have the following invitation from the M e d nossenschaft Branowitz to conclude a hunting lease agreement with the Protectorate forstamt Seelowitz (§ 12 para. 6 of Regvo Coll. No. 127/41) is not to be pursued. Accordingly, the measures taken against the Chief of the Hunt Raab in Brano-witz on the occasion of his refusal to conclude the lease contract do not apply. 2.) The free-hand lease of the community hunting district of Branowitz to a German farmer of the municipality of BranOwitz is to be permitted under the usual conditions; a lease contract must be approved in accordance with the existing rules. In the lease conditions it is necessary to include that the hunting district for representational hunts of the Reich Protector must be made available after prior understanding of the hunting chief.