English Translation

Prague, 28 March 1943. State Secretary K.H.Frank Prague. On behalf of our 77-year-old mother, the carrier of the Vutter Cross of Honour in Gold and on behalf of the 6 siblings, ask for mercy for my brother ROBERt GöBEL, who in 1g41 for political offenses he committed before the Protectorate of Bohemia-Mahren, was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment. My brother, who today served his sentence in Magdeburg-Sudenburg, Halistadterstrasse 8a, was born on the il september igoi in Cber-Ullische Kreis Moravia - Schönberg, on the 20th of April 1g43,2 years, half of his retirement and we, Mother and Geschister, were happy if Robert Göbel were allowed to voluntarily report as a soldier to the Wehrmacht in order to make his departure in front service good to the fatherland. From a family full of children, we were 6 sons and 2 daughters, we had to rely on ourselves in early youth and we were in a strange way, but it was my brother Robert who was never able to gain a foothold and had probably temporarily fallen to a crooked level, which ended up bad and just for him.My atester Bru- der serves héute again actively in the allied army as an artillery auptman,the second-largest brother found in lgi8 as a Cberleutnant ler Kraftiahr troupe the hero dead on the south front,my aitere Schwes ter lost her only son on 5 February last year before Moscow, I myself acquired in l933 the German uniform effects and equipment association Eduard J.Bittner in Prague I.Small ring No.ll. Robert Göbel, who now has to bear the penalty, was a law clerk at the German Consulate in Kaschau for a time in the Czecho-Slovak Republic.Spater he was pragtig in the construction of the SDP.in and from the year 1g39 until his punishment in April I94l as Ss - Kann in the HR department in the Petschek-Haus. I would ask you to examine my, our concern, for a return of my brother to his wife and to his child, would be the most gloomy joy for our mother, who has been severely tested in life. I draw with German greetings!