English Translation

OV 12. Aprúl 1940. St.5.282/253/40. 12. AV. 1940 SS-Oberführer Hans K r e b s, President of the Government, Aussig. Dear Cancer! To your letter of 20.3:194o - Mark RPr/S - 2141, concerning the award of the Sudeten German Memorial Medal to various German writers and artists, I reply that I have turned to Minister of State Dr. Meissner in the matter. Minister of State Meissner informed me under the 3.4.194o - sign RP.O.3813/4o that he had given the advance to the Reich Minister of the Interior. Under the 9.4.1940 - sign I c 787/4o/4742 d, the Reich minister of the interior informed me that the writers Pleyer and Watzlik were already in possession of the medal and that the award was considered concluded. In agreement with Minister of State Meissner, he had given the Supreme Reich Authority and instructed the subordinate departments not to submit any proposals for the award after 31.1.194o. Nevertheless, he wrote my letter, since it was about writers and artists, to M