English Translation

Copy ! SS group leader Karl Hermann Fr a n k Prague, 7 August 1942 State Secretary I 9 E I 1878/42 Subject: Behaviour of the lawyer Dr. H o l l from Munich in the main hearing against H a r t m a n n and and. Very revered party comrade Frank ! In the before the special court at the German Regional Court in Prague on 6 August 1942. In July 1942, the lawyer Dr. Holl from Munich defended six Czech defendants from the first financial and economic circles who were all sentenced to high sentences for war crimes. The method of defence of the lawyer Holl in favour of these Czechs gives rise to considerable complaints. for a German lawyer of course absent from the Czech defendants in every way, I had to make the following statements regarding his natural presence in the presence of the Czechs: 1.) Holl stated that he was in his defence of the support and sympathy of the "deputy officer of the NSDAP. for the economy" Dr. Bernhard Adolf certainly. - 2.) Furthermore, Holl has repeatedly emphasized that the accused Czechs "imposed" him, since they had presented themselves like "real German men" before their wives. 3.) Holl finally, in connection with the partial reading of an essay on the relations between the Czech-Slovak Republic and the German Reich, allegedly written by the accused in the year l938, with regard to these statements of the prize, said literally: "One could believe that I heard our leader speak." Minister General Dr. Hans Frank in Berlin W 35 Tiergartenstrasse 2o-21.