English Translation

Translation. 37 Deutschbrod, 15.2.194l. Büco des Staatssekcetärs To the Veidis protector P.T. German authorities in Pra g. Eing.: 2 0. FEB 1941 Tgb. Nr. /%4 I ask for the transmission of this letter to Mr. Secretary of State K.H.Frank in Prague. I allow myself to write on behalf of some former Austro-Hung. Front soldiers who have been wrongly able to enter the state service without being legionaries. We thank you for the credit of the war years to the pension, which had cut off us, the "Oesterreichern", the former government. You may be informed that at that time a law appeared that the war-years should not be counted, except with the legionaries. As far as I remember, that was in 1926. This is about our honor and we hope that they will return it to us. It was terrible for such an old soldier who had fought on both fronts, when he later came to sit next to a legionary, who had only come to the Legion in November lgl8, he claimed to have been registered there before. We had to be constantly at their hand, have respect for them and bow to them, for which we only reaped ridicule and contempt. The worst thing was always when the pay-out list came. They do not believe what we had to let go of the gentlemen legionaries. You don't know how we felt when the legionaries told us about their actions, while we were not allowed to muck old fighters. Their whole stories were only poetry. You can be convinced that in the case of