English Translation

20 In order to prepare and defend the fortress of Brno at any time, the commander of the fortress demands: 1.) The immediate evacuation of the 27o.ooo Chechtschen and 7o.Ooo German inhabitants of Brno with the exception of 5o. ooo in defense, to work for ski jumps and to maintain the supply= enterprises necessary Germans and Czechs. 2.) The use of the most essential part of the air protection room available to the population bnnne for the secure storage of the food and ammunition for 3 divisions. Ibo. W Bv considers this demand from the purely military level= X point out and in the sense of all set defense tasks to be justified. The German State Minister ... • 41 As the Wehrmacht authorised representative at the German State=minister, on the basis of the objections of the German Minister of State and the Gauleiter, I ask them to decide whether a) despite the objections made by the German minister of state and the Gauleiter regarding the expansion of Brno to the fortress with all measures listed below (l.) and 2.) qoapo b) all demands to be made to a fortress, with Aus=