English Translation

1la Warthegau looks at each other differently and does not in any way agree with our view. Now it really matters in the 5th year of the war and in our present situation only to bring countries and peoples, which we have under our regiment, to a full labor operation. It is therefore necessary to keep the peoples in a somewhat good mood and to encourage a free-will approach - cum grano salis - and it is certainly very difficult to get along on this line if you have known only the line of the strongest executive for four years. It is very difficult to come to the right line in my opinion at a time when every accommodation is easily regarded as weakness and despite that the attempt must be made = for our sake - in order to facilitate the attainment of victory for us. Everything else, all the multiple convictions, which stand against it and almost border on dogmas, must be put back. All these things of fundamental importance can be spoken and decided once the war has ended. Now we have different goals and have to go other ways. Since in our particular situation the older youth is a particular source of unrest, gangs are intensifying, acts of terrorism are becoming more and more common, whispers of the communist kind, we have to deal with the leadership of the youth, for which nothing is happening for the time being, at last thoroughly. And now it seems to me that your approach is always exemplary, even if you do not have to ignore the different situation of the General Government and of the Protectorate deerb. 1661 I will now study your 'beautiful dungeons' and write to you if I would like to have a detailed work report. However, I am already convinced that I will ask for one of these and I would be grateful if you would send the Obersturmbannführer Fischer with this eventuality Bl. 2