English Translation

Copy. 51 The Government Commissioner of the City of T a u s Vládní komisař města Domažlic. Taus dne 25.9.1940. To the President of the State Leo Schubert in Prague. Subject: Hostages of the city of Taus for case Smudek. Dear President . On the basis of my recent consultation with you about the release of certain hostages who have been arrested on the occasion of the Palles Smudek and who have already been in Flossenbirk for over 1/2 years, first as prisoners of honour and now as prisoners for protection, I turn to you again today. Like me, you are a party comrade and, as a German as well as I, you have to represent the Czech population in addition to the German interests. If I now stand up for the release of some citizens of the city of Taus, I will do so for the following reasons : I was then appointed to the case of Smudek at the request of Gauleiter Wächtler/Bayr.Östmark/ to some extent as a reprisal for the city Taus as German government commissioner, with the commission to worry for peace and order and for ëine healthy German health administration There is no need for any further explanation that if one arrests the most respected citizens in a city with a population of 10.000 l50, which must have an adverse impact on the economic life of such a city, especially since now in the wartime women are quite unable to do the business that their husbands have done so far, the more In the light of the above, it should be noted that: