English Translation

Translation. Prague, 14.7.1941. Office of the Secretary of State onReichsprotector An in Dehnv ehzen. His Excellency Cng. 18 JULY 1941 Mr State Secretary K.H. Frank Tgb. I... in Prague - Bubentsch. I very much apologise, Your Excellency, for allowing me to ask you for protection and for your intervention, and for my request that I consider it to be my honour to consider your Excell-ence as my superior, because my friends and comrades are only the gentlemen of the Reichspolizei on General Roettig Street. I have no other friends and I do not need them. Today, on July 4, I was summoned to the tax office in Bubentsch, III.Stock, door No.49 and asked to present my books for the purpose of checking the tax turnover for the year I94o. I willingly followed the summons and they also handled me properly. When looking at the books it turned out that I had forgotten to enter an amount of K 4.7oo.- for sold inventory and also an amount K 7.874.7o for the first week of the year l94o. Although the amounts were well and chronologically recorded, they were not included in the turnover book, so that the total amount was K 12,574.7o, for which a tax of K 251.5o would have been payable. I acknowledge this forgetting as my mistake and apologize for the fact that I am always completely exhausted after the Christmas season and had business and other worries just at the turn of the year 1939 - 194o. Since both I and my brother have been among the supporters of the Reich Chancellor Hitler and his National Socialist idea for at least a few years, we are happy to donate without encouraging the press for various social purposes of the Empire, as Your Excellency can note at the Red Cross, the NSDAP, Prague III. The amount of etc.