English Translation

Karlovy Vary, 15th October 194l. 13 Dear Secretary of State, If the undersigned allow themselves to approach you, Mr. Secretary of state, with a request, this is in the hope that you will lend a kind ear to the needs of a Eurasian. Our brother, Dr. Wilhelm Brandner, was sentenced to ten months in prison on 25 June 1994 by the Special Court of the German Land Court in Prague pursuant to § l, paragraph 1 of the War Management Ordinance, which he is currently serving in the Bautzen prison. Now his wife, Dr. Anna Brandner, has submitted a motion of grace to the Attorney General at the German District Court in Prague, whose copy we are allowed to settle. The main reason for her request is that, in two months' time, she looks forward to the birth of her first child, and that she could better survive this conflict after the overly severe blow of fate that struck her by condemning her husband, if she had the hope of knowing that her child's father would soon be freed from the sad situation that he was facing. All the more so, since the thought of the health of the woman and the child was the first and last cause of his offense. C102r He himself repents selliah severely and sincerely regrets his act. However, we ask you, Mr. State Secretary, to consider the following facts for his reliability and skill as a German. He has been living in Prague since his 7th year of life and later, in all the positions he held here, he has always consciously stood up for his people and supported his German people - as far as it was within his sphere of power. For his commitment to Germanism he was placed under police supervision before the transfer of Sudetenland to the Reich. Upon his return, he immediately came to the building work in the kingdom. If these facts speak for him in a kind influence in the further course of things, may you, Mr. Secretary of State, see his offense and graciously support the request for grace. St. S. xīB-87 a/41