English Translation

A decree similar to the decree of the Deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia of 28 May 1942, by which the protectorate members who are currently in the Sudetengau, would be subject to a special reporting obligation, would become feasible. With regard to the proposed confiscation of the broadcasting apparatuses with Czechs, I should like to point out that the services of the secret state police in the decree of the Reich Security Main Office of 2 June 1942 - IV D 1 a 529/42 g.267 - already have a handle which meets all the requirements, on the question of the expulsion of all the protectorate members of the Czechs from the Sudetengau, I can raise the following concerns: such an action could have as its object the transfer of all protectorate personnel from the Sudetengau to the Protectorate. The result would be a highly undesirable further concern of the Protectorate itself. To this end, there is an explicit decision by the deceased 4-Upper Group leader Heydrich, who in his capacity as Deputy Reichsprotector strongly opposed the expulsion of Czechs from the Sudetengau into the Protectorates. An expulsion of Czechs from the Sudetengau to the inner Reich area is not recommended, since these many German speaking Czechs in the Old Reich - especially during the war period - could have a much more harmful effect than in the SuDetengau, where they are known and are observed much more attentively by the sudeten German population trained in the border struggle, than would be the case in the inner German region. Such a relocation operation would also involve a possible - 3 - 11487 00 5-601