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55 -5 replied, however, that he was afraid that he would be rejected from the outset with his request and that he did not want to expose himself to it. Von Schebek told the defendants that the Secretary of the Pro- tectorate needed this message, because members of the detainees and convicts from the Protectorate often applied to the embassy with the request for information also on applications for acts of grace and because it was a matter of pain for the embassy to tell the family that it was not informed of these things. The defendant then, in a list of lists, named the Shebek Legation Council 36 names of convicts and defendants with details of the scheduled main dates of trial, against the recognized criteria. One day, following consultation with the defendant, the Shebek Legation Council turned to the managing officer of the People's Court of Justice to ask to be informed of the main dates of the trial and the convictions on the grounds of the matters of care dealt with by the embassy. The managing official, the deputy officer Thiele, did not consider himself responsible for the decision on this question and introduced the Legation Council of Schebek to the President of the People's Court to enable him to decide on the matter himself. The President of the People's Court of Justice rejected the request and told the Legation Council that the relatives concerned could contact the Peoples' Court directly for this information.The embassy of the Protectorate was shown that they could not have received the information received from the defendant in any other way and evaluated the knowledge gained extremely highly. This follows from a Brieg sent by the ambassador of the Protectorate to the Reich government, Dr. Chvalkovsky, to Dr. Hubert Masařik, the minister personally known to him and authorised in the Council of Ministers Bureau of the Protektorate government, on 27 August 1940. : " The legation is for him / the accused / for very valuable information and the carried out