English Translation

It is recommended that this review be speeded up, since the further treatment of the prisoners depends entirely on this result. However, the courtlords of the court-martial courts in question have the possibility to submit the sentence to the general courts in the rear army area, i.e. in such cases to the supreme attorney at the People's Court. A general transfer of the persons in question to the secret state police is not provided for in the war criminal code itself. The necessary investigations, however, would also be conducted by the secret state police at the request of the Supreme Attorney in the case of the prosecution by the court lords to the Supreme Prosecutor at the People's Court. As a result, it is proposed to inform the head of the Wehrmacht military command in Berlin that the far greater number of prisoners of Czech ethnicity are likely to be a protectorate member and should therefore be prosecuted for treason. I should like to ask for instructions whether the Justice Group, with the participation of Group I 3, should forward a letter to the head of the Wehrmacht leadership staff in the High Command of the German Armed Forces.