English Translation

52 -2- "Czech crop protection aid" is the respective community of mayors in the place. It is personally responsible for sabotage acts or resistance actions. With the establishment of "harvest protection aid", the rapid maturing of the harvest is immediately to be taken into account. If, in spite of these measures, sabotage acts occur, the place or territory concerned will be removed from the state food allocation and supply and the population will have to attribute itself to the famine then occurring in the area. To the seriousness of this situation, the Czech population must be made aware of by all appropriate means. The district heads and possibly appropriate associations shall immediately be appointed to carry out the "harvest protection assistance". 2.) On behalf of the Reich Protector, I informed Prime Minister Eliáš, in the presence of the other two ministers, that fire will continue to be caught and burned during freight transports through the Protectorate in large quantities of hay and straw transports. Since this mass of fires does not exclude the possibility of sabotage files, the Prime Minister was instructed to arrange for the transport bureau to provide a guard who would be on the wagon for the next day, on every wagon loaded with hay and straw, who would like to go along with him. The Prime Minister assured this measure. Original to the Lord Reichsprotektor, copy to -Obersturmbannführer Böhme, Myia Prag, 14.7.1941.