English Translation

33 The Wehrmacht authorised 20 September Prague, 41. 19 at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. Abbot II a 1 AZ. 21 Nr. 586 /41. Subject: Intentional Uk position Dr.Walter Sturm, W.B. K. Karlsbad. To the deputy Gen. Kdo. XIII. A.K. Nuremberg. A German government commissioner is to be appointed for the city of Pilsen. From the side of the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor in Böhmen and Moravia, SS group leader Karl Hermann Frank, is envisaged for this position of the currently as captain in active military service, Dr. Walter S t u r m, W.B.K. Karlsbad. Hptm. Sturm is currently located in the Ld. Schtz. Btl. 8o8, a field troop part used in the east, for which according to A.H.M. In 1941, paragraph 847, there was a Wk lock up to and including 31 December 41. However, as the need for an earlier appointment of a German government commissioner might arise, the State Secretary requested that the Uk position of Hptm. Dr. Sturm be prepared in such a way that he could immediately take up his duties if necessary. In order to make this possible, the W.B. asks Hptn. Dr. Sturm to move to his replacement troop section in view of the popular political conditions in the city of Pilsen, where according to A.H.M. 1941 No. 523 a Uk position could be decreed at any time.Rr For the Wehrmacht authorised representative The Chief of the General Staff hllning