English Translation

- 5 - that German and Czech children cannot be invited for the same performance. The plan of the Tristan performance was entirely harmless from a family discussion, after it was known that the Duisburg Opera wanted to bring Tristan anyway in this season. The Reichsprotektor wanted to make her a pleasure for her birthday and would pay for the costs of the singer of the Isolde (Ms. Braun) to be brought up from Munich. He spontaneously initiated the corresponding negotiations by telephone. Only afterwards had they come to mind that I should have been notified immediately. They also made up for this immediately. I would like to apologise for this a little hasty action. In the future we will feel with me before any engagements etc. If any political misinterpretation could arise from the event on Feb. 44, which should also be a very ordinary presentation, in which the Reichsprotektor and his wife take part privately, the event should of course be postponed. I have explained that I will take care of whether the Tristan performance could be completed in the framework of the normal play plan for the first time. However, special actions, such as the performance of "Hänsel and Gretel" (sudden removal of about 1 Duzent special workers from the Czech National Theatre) would not be considered in this case. Moreover, I would have expressed my position in this case not so clearly because I consider this case to be of some importance to the war, but because it seems to me to be a significant precedent (Mr Frick then once again assured me that similar eipgrips would in the future be cut off in cultural planning. - 6 -