English Translation

LtV Prag, ll. July 194o. SD 12 VI. 1940 -B G.R. with 1 Annex 44-Obersturmbannführer B ö h m e , lePrague, sent for knowledge and evaluation. The Wehrmachtbevolimäntiere has in recent times repeatedly dealt in a critical sense with the quality of the people's Germans called for military service from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It is not appropriate to attribute a lack of military virtues to the People's Germans from the beginning, but it is nevertheless clear that a number of people have already fallen in the last fights, and that they have been wounded. In addition, the takeover of the Wehrmacht authority carries with it the risk that, on the basis of the quality of the people's Germans, negative tendencies will be carried into the measures that serve the rule of the popular struggle. I should therefore like to suggest, in an appropriate form and on an appropriate occasion, to point out to the Wehrmacht authorised representative that it is not expedient to send the same and similar letters as the attached letter directly to the OKH or the OKW, that it would rather appear advisable to send any defects - as is also the case in the TC&IV