English Translation

Bulace. Absichrift Excerpt from the instruction of the LGr.Sudetenland of the RLB of 20.3.39. 28V 20.March 1939. Confidential!!! To the leader of the district group Troppau IS-Hauptführer P a w i i s k a , T r o p p a u. Johannesgasse 7. As regards the organisation of civil air protection, this question needs to be clarified in accordance with national law, since the territory of the Protectorate is owned by its own state and its own administration, which rights must be taken into account in every respect. The clarification and treatment of this question can only be carried out from state to state by means of the competent authority. Whether the Protectorate will establish its own air protection organization on its territory or whether and in which form the Reichsluftschutzbund will be able to extend its activities to this area is still open. As long as there is no basic instruction from the Reich Ministry of Aviation, the activities of the RLB. territorial remain limited to the previous area. It is quite natural that we Sudeten Germans have the urge and the greatest interest in helping to organize as quickly as possible the neighbouring areas now included under the protection of the German Reich. Even if an official activity of the RLB. There are ways of providing them with advice and assistance, in the spirit of our solidarity with our neighbours, but this aid must leave the purely comradely ties with the liberated areas alone and must not in any way bear the character of an official activity of the RDB. This enlightening instruction is to be kept as strictly confidential by the district group leader. Heil Hitler ! Der komm.Landegruppenführer. gez.Frank.