English Translation

The Reichsprotektor N Brag Iv, ben 4 December 1942. in Bohemia and Moravia No. IV 2233 Wi - 1,7/43 Co wirgbeten, dieies Geidafteteid un den Seea bei weteren Shreen anueen. sunten der Cberfalc Bolfva taficatonto Nr, 9s,ãoo and (irotonto Vei det Mattonabat für Gohte und Wabent i Bru - PE Betr.: Sammlungen für das Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes bei-Chechen. I./ Annotation. The letter of the Gaubeuter in the Sudetengau for daš WHw. Head of Division Hoyer is not a refutation of the letter from the Secretary of State to Gauleiter Henlein dated 19.10.42, especially since it contains several contradictions in itself. I propose the following reply from the Secretary of State: Reichenberg, EMON Waldzeile l4. lo .neffes Dear Party comrade Hoyer! loi I have taken note of your letter dated 26.10.42 and the clarification you have provided in detail for the future handling of WHW collections in the Protectorate. However, I must keep in mind that, in recent months, a politically failed procedure has been followed in many places in the Protectorate with regard to the collections of the Winter Fund in the Czech Republic. You admit yourself in your letter that the call for donations was "preliminarily directed to the German members of the following," so an advertisement with the Czechs was by no means excluded. It may be correct - 2