English Translation

41a imposes a disciplinary penalty on him, and he performs all his current duties conscientiously and diligently. In the summer of 1943 - since the three years of imprisonment and imprisonment with my husband resulted in an extraordinary weakening of his organism, he fell ill with a severe Flegmone, from which a complete blood poisoning developed, and the danger of death was removed only thanks to a timely intervention of surgery and the care of the detention centre, It is understandable that the exhausted organism lacks sufficient resistance and regenerative capacity,so that my husband, despite his recovery, is in such a dire state of health that any external cause of his health could cause serious consequences. I allow myself, Your Excellency, to express to my generation that the purpose of a temporary punishment should certainly not be a total destruction of the life of the condemned, but that by imposing an appropriate punishment the condemned should be brought on the right path and that the right conception of life, which is won by the punishment, should then be given to him again in his free life. There is no doubt that my husband, who has already lost more than 3 years of the sentence, has become fully aware of his unremarkable attitude and has changed his way of thinking in a green way. In this case, therefore, the purpose of the punishment appears to have been achieved, especially if the motive of the act on which he was sentenced was only inconsiderate and if there is a risk that a continuation of the penalty would constitute a threat to his life. I allow myself to ask your excellency, politely, to watch in all these circumstances and pardon my husband for the rest of the sentence. If this could not be complied with, I ask that my husband at least be granted a mitigation of the penalty. 3n4 97470 Prague, 7 March 1944. Dr.Eva Horová e.h. Prague XII. Agramer-Strasse 39.