THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 109, sig. 110-3/49

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6036/126/g t St.M. III A - 246 a/44 g.Rs. Prague, 6 December 1944. Secret Reicsfahe KR-FS: (After entrance to treat as a secret Reichsssache!) To Mr. Reichsminister and head of the Reich Chancellery Dr.Lammers, B e r l i n W 8, Voßstraße 6. Dear Mr. Imperial Minister! On your telex today - No. 117 954, concerning the ski jumping work in the Gau Niederdonau and in the Protectorate, I reply that the following communication was received from the party liaison office in Prague on the 5th of January: "The Führer approves the use of 1O.O0o Czech workers in the construction of the opinion, which is envisaged by the Minister of State and the Minister for State K.H.Frank. I ask you to inform party comrade Frank of this decision of the leader and to coordinate with him all the measures necessary to carry out the operation. Heil Hitler! e.g. Martin Bormann." I note to this note that I have not promised neither the party chancellor nor the leader of the party Dr.Jury an engagement of Czechs in the Gau Niederdonau. On the same day I sent the following telex to Reichsleiter Bormann: "This morning I was sent the Führer's order that the protectorate for a ski jump in the Gau Nie-