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0 4ITD6Q7 The Reichaminister und Chef Berlin W 8, 31 January 1944 the Reichokanzlei Rk. 712 D To the German State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia Mr. SS-Obergruppenführer K.H. Frank BrB Subject: Exercise of the right of grace in the Protectorate. On the letter of 7 Januer 1944 - 1I/1 - 4017 -, Dear Minister of State! I hereby send you a certified light copy of the e gd d d sede protector in Bohemia and Moravia of 25 January 1944. I will arrange for the publication of the Erlaese in the Reichsgesetsblatt, the decree corresponds in all essential Funkten Thhren proposals. He only deviates from them in the following - more technical - unities: 1.) They had made the proposal that the exercise of the right of grace which was granted to the protectorate should be linked to the renunciation of the Reich Protector if the offence or fate of the titer had political significance for the Protectorate, the Reich Minister of Justice has noted that it was not the exercise in the Protectorium that he would take part in such cases in a self-evident manner. The Führer has not concealed himself from this argument of the Reich Minister of Juetis, Bine Ihrom's proposal, therefore, has not been included in the Brlass. However, I informed the Reichsminister dor Juntiz, on behalf of the Führers, in the very oaths annexed to the transcript, that, as he has already promised, he would go- halton