THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1166, sig. 110-11/104

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35a address me to the Minister of State.Of course, I cannot judge whether this is really happening, but I ask you, Standartenführer, to be convinced that the difficulties to be overcome are often such, that I do not know any way out of it. I have about 650 requests for housing at the Housing Office today. These are two thirds of the requests made by protectorates, and these, too, often include important arms companies as "protection" and are so many cases that I have to decide in the spirit of these interventions. Then, of course, the party and the local group leader, whose area the apartment is, sets heaven and hell in motion to allow this apartment to be given to a people's or party's need. I build all my work on the assumption that the Obergruppenführer is convinced that I always and under all circumstances prefer to the Reich members, but in certain cases also have to assign shelter members. I expect, Standartenführers, especially with your support, to receive complaints about my leadership with you. I know that my measures make me unpopular to the highest degree and that the handling I have practiced so far has lost a large part of my ethnicity, which I had in Brno.But I am also convinced that the decisions I made are 90% correct and the other 1% decisions are the ones I have to make under the pressure of certain circumstances. I am writing you all this, Standartenführer, because I am aware of the size of the responsibility I bear, but I can only bear this responsibility if I know that Ober- 35927 group leader K.H.Frank recognizes these difficulties and I find a loo% coverage of my actions with you. I would also like to thank the rapporteur for his excellent report, and I would like to congratulate him on his excellent work.