English Translation

Copy Der Deutsche Staatsminister Frag, den 7.September 1943. für Böhmen und Mähren II e Gen. d 4ol7 Exercising the right of grace in criminal cases from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Dear Party Comrade Dr. Thierack! As the Reich Minister and head of the Reich Chancellery sent to you by the circular to the Supreme Reich Authorities from 29 August 1943 - Rk. 99ll D - has been transferred by the Führer the exercise of the right of grace and repression in criminal matters from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the Imperial Protector, insofar as it is not the matters falling within the jurisdiction of the military and 4 and police courts. The decisions on the question of grace are being prepared by the Reichsprotektor in the German Ministry of State for Bohemia and Moravia. With a backlash to this changed situation, I am entitled to advise you on behalf of the Reich's Protector Dr. In my capacity as German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia, I will instruct the Attorney General at the German Higher Regional Court in Prague to only reimburse me for the future reports of grace, in derogation from the previous exercise, with regard to the criminal cases from the Protectorate pursued by the People's Court and the Supreme Regional Courts of Wroclaw, Dresden and Leitmeritz. Thierack in Berlin W8 Wilhelmstr. 65