English Translation

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE GOVERNMENT. 6 Prague, on 3 October 1940 ZI. 37.284/40 M.R. M. R. Office of the State Secretariat: Subject: Protective custody of Josef Podivínský ben Reichsprotekioc from Hobitschau. in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 4 Oct. 1940 Tgb. No.... Lifnn Dear Secretary of State ! bryany! s7e /5/10.40 The receipt of your letter of 30 September 1940, No. St. S. 5l5/40, confirming, I have the honour to announce that I have made use of your advice and have advised the son of the landowner Podivínský, Ing. Podivinský, that he may influence his father in the direction that he voluntarily renounces the return to the municipality of Hobitschau. Ing.Podi- vínský explained that he would follow it and immediately ask the organs of the empire, in whose protective custody his father is, for the permission of a conversation with the father and recommend him to renounce the return to the municipality of Hobitschau. Landowner Podivínský will, after being released from protective custody, stay with his son Ing.Po- divinský in Brno and take the necessary steps to liquidate his property in Hobitschau and to exchange it for another suitable object. Ing.Po- divinský has asked me to give you, dear Mr. State Secretary, the request to interpret the organs of the empire like St. S.πB4a