English Translation

On 4 June 1942, Ms Elfriede Wannenmacher, residing in Waldhof, Post Iglau II, appeared in the district department of the Oberlandratsamt Ig Lau, spoke to the employee Holik and asked for an exhibition of a firearm certificate. Mrs. W. submitted a written application from 3.6.1942 to the employee Holik. H. handed over a pre-printed application with the request to fill it out and attach a photograph. After this had taken place, H. appeared to me in my office to obtain instructions for the treatment of this application. I examined the request on the basis of Mrs W.ab's letter dated 3.6.1942. in the house Waldhof No.25 is living alone and there is "the register of the farm belonging to her and her husband", In addition, Mrs. W.in leads her request: "..the following of my business is partly Czech." With regard to the from the Lord Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, commander of the security police, with Erl. from 2l.1l.1939 - B.Nr. I1-650-25/39 - given guidelines, I carefully checked whether the "unreliable need for the approval" of the application for a licence is present in this issue. Since Waldhof is close to Iglaus, belongs to the area of the Iglauer Sprachinsel and according to local knowledge of the employee in Iglau Holik is almost German, besides Mrs W. in her own request, stating that her following is "in part" Czech, I was of the opinion that the "indisputable need" must be denied in the present request. I took this opinion completely objectively after careful examination of the situation and instructed the representative Holik to give Mrs W. an appropriate communication. Following the submission of this opinion to Mrs W., the latter expressed the wish to Holik's employees that: