English Translation

183a Professionals should be informed, if necessary, by all Czech State authorities dealing with ecclesiastical matters, and should be able to give them advice and guidance on how to deal with these matters, as well as to my ministry, on the measures taken by the Czech authorities in this area and on the situation of the Church in general. I would attach particular importance to the fact that, in your authority, these questions would be dealt with by the Ministerial Commissioner D r. V e it s, who is currently working in the Reichskommissariat for the Sudeten-German territories in Reichenberg and who fulfils all the requirements for the post in Prague. Since the treatment of ecclesiastical questions in Bohemia and Moravia for the most varied reasons might be particularly meaningful and 56879 difficult, I would be grateful for my prompt answer to my suggestion, so that the necessary things could be immediately arranged. I sent a copy of this letter to the Minister of the Interior. Heil Hitler! ez. Kerrl.