English Translation

8 Special Department of Cultural Policy General Department Press. Prague, 6 April 1943. Draft for a foreword by the Oberst-Gruppeführer for the first number of the decree of the Sportgaues Bohemia and Moravia in the ESRL. Body and defence training are essential components of the national political education in the Great German Reich. From the realization that Germanism in the Bohemian Moravian region in particular needs a uniform orientation and direction also in the field of physical exercises, the immortalized Reichssportführer Hans von Tschammer and Osten in agreement with me has ordered the admission of all German sports communities existing in Bohemia and Moravia to a new Sportgau. With April l943 the Sportgau Böhmen and Moravia in the NSRL took up its activity. He will carry it out in the spirit of that old tradition of German body education, which always formed the basis for the powerful use in the struggle for popularism of this space. It is therefore my wish that the job-educational work in the young Sportgau Bohemia and Nährren be tackled with the enthusiasm that the high goal, the future of our people, foi- der.The Deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia gez.Daluege he po caadda-orte-t Chief General of Police.