English Translation

The head of Prague II, November 18, 1942. of the Wealth Office - Drazitz-Platz 7 at Fspr.: 41751, 47541. 40851 Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia To the office of the Mr. State Secretary at the reference number: VMVZ.No.7-V/70 Reichsguardor in Böhmen and Moravia In reply letter with reference to the SS group leader K.H.F r a n k to indicate subject. Z.Hd. v. Ministerial Councillor SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr.G i e s, Pragiv. Subject: Possessions of the Hohenfurth Abbey in the Protectorate. Reference: S T-SS A S Appendices: 3 loose, 1 file. In matters relating to the Hohenfurth monastery, which the Gestapo had given me as confiscated in January 1942, negotiations with the administration of the monastery or with the Reichsgau Überdonau on the question of whom the possessions of the abbey in the Protectorate should fall did not take place at my office. This matter has, rather, been handled by the secret state police themselves after the Führer's decision, for it informed me by shouts of 11.8.42 B.No.310/41 - IV/3 - that it had revoked the seizure of the property of the monastery situated in the Protectorate and handed this property over to the Reichsgau Ober donau. I attach a copy of the letter of the office. I did not enter into any activity with regard to the management of the property during the seizure. Immediately upon confiscation, the Gestapo had administered the property in Budweis of the Allgemeinem.Treuhand A.G. in Prague and the entire agricultural property to the Land Office. On a telephonic request, the Allgemeinem.Treuhand A.G. informs me that it did not take over the management of the property because of the unexplained legal situation at all; the Land Office with order of 15.9.42 (Act: 1304) abolished the ordered compulsory administration. a t a a a