STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1951, sig. 109-6/43

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10 The Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia Brag.,.en...2...S.e.p.tembe...193.9. fr0z Rr.VI/Zo11/-2222/39 Eo is asked to indicate these characters and the counter-sand further letters. To the Secretary of State 6e8 by the Under-Secretary of State. Subject: German Tobacco Criminals in the Protectorate, here in Prague. The request of the 2O.d.M. there, the Minister Dr. Bertsch has forwarded to me for reasons of jurisdiction, I will strongly support. I can already report that I have already initiated the consideration of the people's Germans in relation to their population share in the forgiveness of ta- bakschleissen from other causes. The Ministry of Finance has in the meantime, at my request, already lifted the decree, which ordered the forgiveness of the freed tobacco cover to refugees from the Sudetengau /Czech Republic, as far as people's Germans are concerned. Surveys on the ethnicity of all owners of tobacco cover are in progress. On behalf of f 4 chid borgangs.a.l. .hi ar f te $\r}$