English Translation

6 WIEN dzt.Krakau 2o, Bergakademie REICHSMINISTER 15 November DR. ARTHUR SEYSS-INQUART Si/S-P DAV 36a To the State Secretary at the Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia Dr. Fr a n k Prague Dear State Secretary! For your support in the following matter, which seems to me to be very important, I would be very grateful to you as the leader of the German Alpine Association: The difficulties of leaving the country, which are justified in the special circumstances of the Protectorate, also for Germans from the Protectorates to the Reich, who are virtually in the same position as an exit barrier, have a significant impairment, almost paralysing the operation of the four branches of the Deutscher Alpenverein, which remain in the protectorate. I particularly regret this because, among them, the work carried out with great tenacity during the Czech period and its successes are now exposed to a new and even more serious threat, contrary to all the legitimate expectations of its bearers; and because the use of mountaineering, which is so necessary today, as a means of ideological and physical education, as it takes place throughout the Empire, is thus prevented in the Protectorate. In the case of the protectionist areas, which are the main features of the war, the 6 4