STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2243, sig. 109-11/44

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Dr. Anna Brandner, Prague, 15.0ktober 1941. Prague XII. Municher Strasse 62. To the Attorney General at the German Regional Court in__P_I_a_g: Subject: Application for grace for Dr. Wilhelm Brandner , zzt. Verführungsanstalt Bautzen iSa., file number: 5 KL s 86/41. The undersigned Dr. Anna Brandner asks her husband Dr. Wilhelm Brandner, who is currently serving a ten-month prison sentence in Bautzen i/Sa. at the German Landgericht in Prague, to issue the motivating and indiscriminate part of his sentence. As the starting date of the sentence, the l4 June 194l is to be considered, so that the legal minimum period has already elapsed with the date of submission of the application for grace. To the justification of my request, I quote: Event: My husband Dr.Wilhelm Brandner, dzt. June l94l by judgment of the special court at the German Landgericht in Prague according to § l, paragraph l of the War Management Ordinance of 4 September l939 sentenced to ten months in prison, which he currently spends in the prison Bautzen i/Sa. The facts can be seen from the criminal acts. Reason_of_the_application: My husband sincerely regrets his offence. He did not commit them intentionally, but was induced by various circumstances, as it appears from the criminal act, to yield to purely human impulses.