English Translation

National Socialist German Workers' Party Bürg of State Secretary Gau Sudetenland at the Reichsprotektor Kreisleitung Bischofteinitz in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 10.FEB.1942 L To the Herr Reichsprotektor für Böhmen und Mähren z.H.Secretary of State Der Kreisleiter. SS-Groupenführer K. H. F r a n k J Prag _ Czernin Palais: 6 February ..1942. Our sign: 1070/42/26 Ibr Sign: Bischofteinitz, to give the In reply. As I have recently been aware, it is possible that service obligations to protectorate members in the Protectorate can also be pronounced for the Sudeten German territories, including for agricultural workers. Since my district of Bischofteinitz is a purely agricultural circle and I will have problems in agriculture, especially in the spring, due to the increased confiscations to the Wehrmacht, I would ask you to consider the possibility of requiring agricultural workers to work here. I am thinking above all of agricultural workers from the area of the CETRORCOO Oberlandrat in Klattau. BUjcS As the situation on the individual farms is already catastrophic, e.g. on many farms with 20 ha and more only the farmer, a pole and often three to four or more small children are present, sometimes only two old parents, frail, at the age of up to 80 have to manage the farm, I feel compelled to provide help here and under all circumstances to ensure the cultivation of cereals and potatoes. The district of Bischoftei- nitz is of particular importance for nutritional purposes. It is the first in the Sudetengau. For example, in the past few years, it has received the following amounts of vital goods: B.M. TNEGEN Coss 17-642