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Security Service of the Reichsführers-ff Prag-Bubentsch, 3 June 1944. te datat Sachsenwag Spokesman 774-44 III A SA 117 Secret Secret! MiCC 1.) An e al i-Obergruppenführer State Minister K. H. Fr a n k, -9.JUNI 1944 Prague Czernin-Palais. 2.) To the Commander of the Security Police and the SD 4-StandartenführER Dr. W e i n m n n, Prague. 3.) To the Head of the Department of Justice in the German State Ministry of Bohemia and Moravia, Ministerial Councillor K r i e s e r O.V.i.A., Prague. Subject: Symptom effects of German criminal justice in Bohemia and Mähren. A report on the atmospheric effects of the German criminal justice system in Bohemia and Moravia, particularly in the Czechs, is presented below with a request for information. The reporter, a Czech, was a leading right-wing opposition during the old regime and is now regarded as German-friendly; the preparation was already made in the original in German language and only slightly modified in order to maintain the immediate effect in terms of content and style: I. For the harshness of the German judiciary, the population has no understanding at all. On the contrary, especially the death penalty is placed in the second place among the evils by which the Germans are guilty of the Czech people. It is generally condemned, especially for political crimes, as unacceptable. b.w. Si.Mπy-65/44g 428/44 141