English Translation

National Socialist German Workers' Party Party-Kanzlei Der Leiter der Party- Kanzlei München 33, 25 May 1941.Führerbau III D - Es. 3320/0/108 State Secretary Party Union S Karl Hermann Frank fingegen am: Prag IV 2 9. V. 1941 Burg Nordflügel. -/1cf Subject: New occupation of the dioceses of Prague and Budweis. I would be grateful if you, too, would encourage the re-establishment of the dioceses of Prague and Budweis to be treated as diplomatically as possible. If, however, the Church is already reassigned, I ask that it be concerned that, if the Church appoints to the Lord Reichsprotektor the candidate whom it considers to be the candidate, I should be heard before the final statement is made. Moreover, I would strongly advise against using ourselves towards the Church for the appointment of a German bishop in Prague. This would hinder us in our future measures to be taken in the Protectorate area, even in the case of the expulsion of the previous ecclesiastical privileges. An appointment of a German ./. $A/2r-0\