English Translation

46 Copy of the German Minister of State Prague, 13 October 1943 for Bohemia and Moravia I c Gen. d 4ol7 Subject: Exercise of the right of grace in criminal matters from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mähren. Just as the Minister of the Reich and Head of the Chancellery of the Supreme Reich authorities by means of circulars of 29 October 1943 August 1943 - RK 99ll D - has been transferred by the Führer the exercise of the right of grace and Nider strike in criminal matters from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the Lord Reichsprotector, insofar as it is not the matters falling within the jurisdiction of military and 4 and police jurisdiction. The decision of the Reich Protector on the question of grace is prepared in the German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia. I am therefore grateful if the correspondence arising in matters of grace from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mshren would be conducted with me in the future, according to Prank To the Minister of State and Head of the Presidential Chancellery of the Führer in Berlin W8 Voßstrasse 4