English Translation

Copy. To His Excellency the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia SS Obergruppenführer Karl Herrmann F R A N K in P RAG Czernin Palais Your Excellence ! I allow myself to turn to your Excellenz in the following affair with the polite request. My husband, Dr. Vladimir H o r a,Member of the Protectorate, was born on 22/l.l907 in Arnultsdorf, Bezirk Böhmisch Leipa, was arrested by the secret state police at Feber l94l and sentenced on 4 September 1942 by the Volksgerichtshofe in Berlin to 15 years in prison.My husband currently pays this sentence at the penitentiary in Brig, Silesia,ab. Since his detention was included in the sentence, he has already lost 3 years and 1 month of his sentence. With regard to the length of time he has already lost from his punishment and taking into account the circumstances mentioned below, I allow myself to express to Your Excellency the polite request that the rest of the punishment should be allowed to subside on the path of grace and to justify this my highest. I quote: My husband was sentenced by the Volksgerichtshof in Berlin on the basis of his crime /:Preparation for treason:/, which he committed in l940, i.e. in the perfect beginning of the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. As was expressly stated in the explanatory statement of the judgment of the People's Court, in the case of my husband it was merely an aid, without any initiative on its part, since it was in its unwiseness under the influence of the others, from which it could not get rid of itself due to lack of energy. The behaviour of my husband during the whole detention and also the prison sentence was absolutely impeccable, never became