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Volksbund t21 für das Deutschtum im Ausland LandesverbandBayern München 15, 27 March 1939 Our sign: Schö. (In reply) Bavariaring 19 / Fernruf 52278/79 Postscheck-Account of the Landesverband Bayern des B.D.N. München Nr. 29700 Your sign: Bank-Aktion des Landesverbands: Bayer. Bereinsbank Depot-Akt 9r. 115564 Baner. Gemeindebank Girogentrale)Akto-Mr. 4205 Jhr Letter from the Secretary of State Karl Hermann Fr a n k P r a g - Burg Dear Party comrade! It has been a long time since we saw each other in our home town of Karlovy Vary, but perhaps remember me. Anyway, I ask you to accept my most cordial congratulations for your appointment and for your high office. I am glad that the trust of our leader has called you to this responsible post, and the news of your appointment has awakened in me some memories of our years of struggle and not least of the time when we both stood up on our own feet and helped each other out. Do not resent that I come to you with a request. The schiksal led me to the Reich after the collapse of my fisherman's business towards the Sparkasse, in the year l937, in between I was the head of a refugee camp, and here I ended up in the VDA, where apart from a somewhat low payment it forged me quite well. Here at the VDA I am immediately concerned with the preparation of an Easter trip to the Sudetenland and this matter prompts me to make a request, namely to help me for my participants in obtaining the entry permit to the Protectorate for a 1 - day trip from Karlovy Vary to Prague. I can well imagine your great workload. But be so good and help me, if anything is possible, because our people here from the Old Kingdom, who have sacrificed for years for the fight of our Sudeten Germans, absolutely want on their Sudete trip also to Prague and this trip was also announced somewhat hastily in the anticipation of the big events. After all participants have passports, only see Prague on Easter Sunday and in the evening would be back in Karlovy Vary, I hope that with your help my request can be fulfilled. ./.