English Translation

MINISTERY OF THE INNER Prague VII-Summerbergstrasse 69-Remote call 77741-9. Z. A-3512-10/7-42-II/1. Prague, 13 July 1942. To the presidencies of the national authorities, to the chairmen of the price monitoring bodies, the district authorities, their external offices and the government police authorities, the Prime Minister of the capital Prague, the Lord Mayors of the cities of Brno,Olmütz and Moravian-Ostrava, the Commissioner for Government of the city of Pilsen, the Gendarmerie Landscommanden, the Pawn and Lease Office in Prague and the General Hospital in Prague. Subject: Use of languages; correspondence with foreign services. The German services are increasingly using only the German language in correspondence with external services. It is therefore necessary that the services of the Protectorate administration proceed in the same way. It is therefore necessary to ensure that correspondence between the departments of the Protectorate Administration and authorities and other departments abroad, including the foreign consulates in Prague, which are still led by the representative of the Federal Foreign Office at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, is conducted only in German. The provisions of the circular decree of the former Council of Ministers of 14 May 1941, Z.22.325/4.960/41/Ko M.R., in the version of the round decree of 11 September 1941, z.42.567/6.639/41/ko M. R., / circular decrees of the Ministry of the Interior of 24 June 1941,