English Translation

Copy 6h The state president in Moravia Brno, 18 November 1942 Reichsauftragsverwaltung Tel. lo.88o No. PA-452o-1942 To the State Secretary SS-Grupänführer K.H, Fr a n k in Prague Czernin Palais. Subject: Formation of the nature and wildlife area of Groß-Seeelowitz In the implementation of Reg.Vdg.No. l27/l94l and the decree of the commissioner head of Section VI at the Ministry of Agriculture - Oberste Jagdbehörde- of 18,6.1942, Zl. 836lo-VI C/42, the lower hunting authority of Brno has been commissioned to form the nature reserve and wildlife reserve Groß-Seelowitz. At the same time it was ordered that the Community hunting districts within this area should be leased by the Protectorate Forest Office of Seelovice. The Supreme Hunting Authority issued a decree on 19 September 1942, requesting that all hunting officers, except the (German) Chief of Hunting in Branowitz, comply with this request. On 1 September 1994 the lower hunting authority of Brno again issued the order to instruct the chief of the hunt in Branowitz with appropriate instructions about its obligations to conclude the hunting lease contract with the forest office in Seelowitz and to have him removed from his office if he refused again. The order of the lower hunting authority in Brno, which was issued in the appropriate form with reference to the consequences, was again rejected by the chief hunting officer in Branowitz. Therefore, the lower hunt authority submitted to my district captain Brno-Land the request to remove the chief hunt officer in Branowitz Josef Raab from his office and to appoint a new chief hunting authority. In order to determine the striking behaviour of the chief of the hunt in Branowitz, my district captain had his German gendarmerie command take care of surveys in the matter. The result of the investigation presented to me by the district captain raises considerable concerns in me whether the application of the lower hunting authority is justified and for this reason I ask that the matter be presented in all depth and for the purpose of de-echeiding. It can be regarded as certain that the headmaster in Branowitz, who at the same time performs the function of a local farmer's leader, refuses his Mnpim's consent to the request, because he does not believe that he can be responsible as a German mamn, that the German farmers of Branoitz should be shut out for all times of hunting on their ground, He is obviously hoirpol was impressed by the duty to protect the German peasants, and in particular the young farmers currently standing before the enemy, all the more so because the 2pm hunting was in possession of a German family for six years and was only beaten in the year ilf ju, It would, as the man has explained, be a high honor for the German farmers at any time, if the Lord Reichsprotector or other my leading figures in Branowitz's areas hunt around, but the fact that the Czech forestry staff of the State Foretamt Seelowitz would raise hunting for themselves on their territory is an impossible imposition for Germanism. I would ask, group leaders, to see from this point of view taken by the local farmer's guide and hunting director that it is in the present //