STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2757, sig. 109-15/2

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50 Prague, lo. October 1939. 1.) Ve r m e r k. An'Amtstelle appeared to me a woman Josefine K u h n from Frauenberg and claimed that she was sent by Kreisleiter Westen. She and her family were in greatest need and it was her intention to receive a sum from the fund, which was at the disposal of the Secretary of State. She was in need because her husband - Dr. Robert Kuhn, the head of the court in Frauenberg, had been retired prematurely because of non-Aryan descent from the protectorate government. As a result, salary payments had fallen to net RM loo.- monthly. But her husband - which can be proved - came from the external relations with an Austrian officer who, like her husband's mother, had been of Aryan descent. The mother's husband had been a Jew. Since her father had not approved a marriage with the Austrian officer, the mother had been preemptively married to the Jews. The Austrian officer shot himself out of Gram. She herself - namely Mrs. Josefine Kuhn - had been German-conscious just as her husband had always been. They belonged to the days of the founding of the local group of the SdP and had to endure a shaken measure of persecution and torture by the Czechoslovak authorities for his sake. One house search followed the other. Today she still wears Aemter in the party as well as in the NSV and in the DAF. The sons were in NSFK and NSKK. There was a request at the Reich Ministry of the Interior, according to which her husband was recognized as Aryan. A positive execution would be her and her