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0.U., 22 September 1944 Min-Rat W e s t e r k a m p Berlin W 35., Bendlerstr. ii/13 z.Zt. bei der Oberkommando der Wehrmachtführungsstände Kurierstelle Tel.: Bln. 80 921l App. 671/2 Minister's Office Eing.: 25 SEP. 1944 An sz Minister of State //-Obergruppenführeryr a in Prague. With reference to my letter of 17.9.44 I now have to say the following: 1.) On September 1, I took away from the head of the Führer - quartier with the head at the Gestapo headquarters of Brno on the basis of the new date of my family's desired journey to Mecklenburg. to my telephone number in Berlin, if, even after consultation with circle leader F o 1- t a , again a departure obstacle should arise. Such a notification did not take place, the trip was fixed at the 20. 9. - 20.46 clock - and in every respect precedes - (tickets, luggage etc.). 2.) At noon this day, the local group leader told my wife, on behalf of the district leader, that you, Mr. Minister of State, had declared the journey to be inadmissible by telephone; the civil servants families from the Old Kingdom, who had participated in the good times in Protectorate, would now also witness the bad times ! 3.) My wife then, after a distant return - speak to me again, distanced from the travel plan and asked me (by the way, according to her desire from the beginning - i) to let things run as they run. On 20.9. - 9.15 p.m. - after the departure had failed, the police director in Brno, on your instructions, Mr. Stáatsminister, had the permit given by my wife in our home. 4.) By your decision, Minister of State, the responsibility for what I consider to be right in the interests of my wife and four children is taken out of my hands. So it will depend on your further decision, among other things, when I will get to my eldest son the care required for his recovery with his grandparents in the countryside and when I can have the family of a friend standing on the front there according to plan. -2- St. M. X1 9 -62 a/44