English Translation

4JTJUOGqV A 28 May 1940. The Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia I W - 468 1. To the Reichsführer SS and head of the German police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior Chief of the Hauptamt Haushalt und Bauen Berlin-Lichterfelde-West. Unter den Eichen 126. Betr.: Kuhberggelände ia Brünn. En Beschreib vom 29.4.1940 - I/2 4901/Fr/Dt. - In the above-mentioned matter, I state the following on the legal situation: According to the former Czecho-Slovak law on expropriation for the purposes of defence of the State yom 2913.35 (Slg.d.G. & Vag. No. 64/35), it is not necessary to use state-owned land for the purpose of state defence of a special appropriation procedure. Rather, the competent body may require the transfer of the Grundstülok by a short hand from the previously administered department.The decree of the Reich Protector dated 11.4.1940 (cf. Ordinary Gazette of the Imperial Protector 1940, page 162) has resumed the law of 29.3.1935 in favour of the German Reich. It can therefore be demanded from the point of view of Wehrmacht (including the concerns of the Waf d dr d s further the ownership of the Kuhberggelündes in Brno on the Reichsfiscus, through the Ordnung of 11.4.1940 the legal difficulties have been considerably simplified. To the question whether the site can be made available for a barracks construction of the Waffen-SS, I can at present no end valid