English Translation

The German Minister of State Prague IV, August 1944. for Bohemia and Moravia Telex: Prague 093 No. V 2/6432 It is requested to indicate this trade mark and the subject matter in the case of further oaths. Accounts of the Supreme Treasury: Draft! of the National Bank of Bohemia and Mähren in Prague. Post savings bank account No. 98,500 and Girokonto with To the head of the party liaison office in Bohemia and Moravia,kek z.Hd.d. permanent representative, senior division head Cbglk-, Prague IV Burg. Betr.: Reference: Your letter of 5 August 1944. If the district leaders in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the Sudetenland administration of the NSDAP, as you did in your letter of 5 May, In August 1944, I expressed the opinion that the Czech youth would not be assigned to labour to the same extent as the German, and that the German population would accept this state of affairs, I can only clarify this opinion, which did not correspond to the facts, by stating that the measures taken in the field of labour for the Czech young people did not become fully known to the mentioned circles. This may not least be due to the fact that the measures I have initiated in this area had to be carried out in silence for understandable reasons - in contrast to the rest of the empire. With regard to your interest in the work of Czech youth, I would like to briefly inform you in detail of the measures already taken and pending: Te cr e s rr d (with minor exceptions in the agriculture and mining sector) and used in the air force production (hunting programme). From this year alone, 25 000 young people were transferred to the rest of the Reich to learn for about 1 0 months. - 2 - 455