English Translation

35 SS Death Head Infantry Regiment 9 Brno, 6 June 1940 - Commander - fom Genl gekaupls I/Az.: 15 a 14 / 6.6.4o N./Kj. Betr.: Purchase of horses by the SS Deathkopf Inf. Reg. 9 The Föhere and Dolizei leader At the in Bähmen and Moravia. Higher SS and police leader A_3 at the Reichsprotector Bohemia and Moravia Entrance on: 1 3. VI. 1940 fnlg.: Prague. Führer Stabst. Rot. Bearb. On the phone call of SS-Sturmbannführer Gieß from 7 5 June 194o and the oral instruction of the Higher SS- and Police-Führer to the Reichsprotektor Böhmen and Moravia, SS-group leader Frank, to the commander of the regiment of the 6th Regiment. June 194o the regiment reported as follows: The regiment had a stock of nine horses before its transfer from West Prussia to Brno, which bear the names Heisa, Liesel, Stella, Fritz, Karl, Max, Adele, Erna and Lotte. With these horses the regiment moved into Brno and, thanks to the mediation of the SS group leader Frank from the Kommando of the Czech mounted police in Brno, took over 12 more horses. These are the horses Amand, Faust, Kaja, Kuryr, Lux, Neptune, Rodan, Rubin, Rigo, Russack, Schidlo and Schemik. The regiment has not negotiated or contacted the police in Moravian-Ostrava with the command of 8 horses to the Czech mounted police in Brno, either in writing or by telephone or in any other way. Nor did the regiment attempt to exchange or even replace any of its horses at any point in the Czech police. Also the SS-Obersturmführer Bachmann, Kompanieführr of the 12th century. Company, on repeated official questioning, has declared that he personally has not contacted any command of the Czech police for an exchange of horses. To this the regiment further reports that neither the Ss-Obersturmführer Bachmann nor any of the other leaders of the regimental so far an order - 2 - St. S.V 0, 25$