English Translation

Security Service RF4 Prague=Bubentich, 25.3.1942. SD section of Prague Sachlenveg of the State Secretary E 4 - VA 41 in Bühmen and Moravia. Eing. 31.MRZ.1942 To the personal adviser of the Secretary of State. to the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia 4-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Gie s Prague Betr.: N o v o t n y, Josef, employee of the company André, resident Prague-Rostok, school place 223. Introduction: There St.S. XII H - 2 22/42. Ann.: 1. 9 Concerning the letter of the André bookstore is returned. About the Josef Novotny intended for the head of the branch office of the Pressburg People's and Reich publishing house the following became known here: N. is from birth Czech. However, he attended only German schools and has in Aussig a.E. His attitude to former Czechoslovakia can by no means be described as German-friendly. Only in the course of political development did he change, joined the Vlajka movement in 1939 and became a functionary. After the establishment of the Protectorate N., whose wife is German, became German and is today Obersturmmann in the NSK. Despite his high age (55 years), he volunteered for the NSK mission, was initially employed as an interpreter in Olmütz for a while and then as a colonist in Berlin. In the work of the local group Prague-Rostok he takes a lively part and is described in every respect as reliable. His two sons stand in the east mission. t Tni . i.V. 4-Hauptsturmführer.