THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 503, sig. 110-4/351

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Prague IV, 25 January 1945. Tuscany-Palais Kn.//De. Ruf Nr. 083/3437 The commissioner of the German Minister of State for the Extended Children's Land Dispatch in Bohemia and Moravia Geheim i 854/c/45 ( 3 Bl., 4 Ausfert.) To the Minister of the State, SS Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and Police K.H. Fr a n k , Prague IV. Czernin-Palai Obergruppenkührer ! In the course of the relocation measures discussed at the time for camps of the extended children's land shipment, I propose to you with regard to the current situation a further transfer from the northern part of the Bannes Königgrätz, northern part the Banne Brno, Bann Olmütz and only youth residences and Bann Moravian-Ostrava a part of WE camps. (The KLv-Verlegung from the Bannen Mähr.-Ostrau, Olmütz and from the eastern part of the Bannes Brno is carried through and completed). In order to avoid unnecessary alarm, the necessary provision for Wehrmacht purposes and for adult evacuations could be mentioned as the foundation of this new relocation. I would divide the transfer into two zones with the following lines: Zone I: Bann Königgrätz: north of the line Sikhrov, Sobotka, Jitschinoves, Smirschitz,Reichenau/Reich border/ 2 - 117