English Translation

Jaroslav Suchan, former Artillery Colonel, a.D. Brno, 20th October 1941 Subject: the police decree over 20 the identification of the Jews. Bürolo G aatsekret Bds 1e.o)sprotector 2 X 1941 in Buhman and mühren. Bes Eing.: 21. OKT. 1941 3124 TgbXT 1941 High-Wohlborn B.d.p.6598 4 yun1.torned to the Lord's Secretary of State and SS Group leader KarlHermannFrank mpov W 2 aia in Prague: 01/27 We, old front fighters from the years l9l4 to l9L8, Czech nationality and fullarians, whom we are affected by the Poli- zei- zierung über die Marking der Juden, page 497, /ver- öffentlicht im Ordinungsblatte vom l2.September l94l Nr.44/, submit to you, highly esteemed Mr. SS Gruppenführer, a request based on your nobleness, that, thanks to your word of power and your well-known heart formation, you exercise the right that should spare us from the consequences of this measure. In the old Austro-Hungarian army, to which you too, highly esteemed Mr. SS group leader, have belonged, we have lawfully trusted women of non-Aryan descent and without jeopardising the reputation of this army, and now come through the above mentioned police regulation into the situation of life, which is not only a bitter lot of a minority estimate, but rather until now our undefeated honor. Also this fact means a direct contradiction with our merits, 0000 St. S.1E 25/41