English Translation

Department I Prague, 26 May 1943 Subject: Visit by Gauhauptmann Dr.Kreisslund dauamts-leiter Dr.Portele. V e r me r k. On 24 May, 4-Brigadeschiebermann Dr. Kreissl and Gauamtsührer Dr. Portele spoke in order to address a number of municipal policy issues. 1.) The Minister for the Interior of the Reich had also addressed the German Community Day, for which Dr.Portele was to prepare proposals for the positions in question. Dr. Portele's view of this is in line with that of the local State Secretary Stuckart, who at that time had already explained it to him, and who recently accepted it. In order to make practical progress, it was agreed that the German Community Day would pass on to the Minister of the Interior specific requirements of the associated communities for the transfer to us, which we fulfil from the existing forces, as far as possible. 2.) Head of the Gauamt Dr.Portele then tried to push forward the obligation of civil liability compensation, which I rejected as not important for war at the moment. 3.) Dr. Portele declared himself ready and able to provide us with 4 to 5 medium-sized or high-ranking German municipal officials for deployment in Bohemia and Moravia. He wants to try to make us still district chiefs named. 4.) Gauhauptmann Dr. Kreissl and Gauamtleiter Dr.Portel then declared themselves interested in securing the position of German mayors: For this purpose, a TOLD