English Translation

Eh KRAKAU, DEN 9 December 1943. Dr.v.Bu./Ha. GENERALGOUVERNEMENT OF THE GOUVERNEUR OF THE DISTRIKTS KRAkAU Ministerial Office Eing.: 13.Dez.1943 Minister of State K.H. Frank, bryane! P r a g A311 Hg German Ministry of State for Bohemia and Moravia, e Palais Czernin. 73/92.43 Dear Minister of state! I come to you today with a request. It is necessary in this room to drive with the passenger. But the passenger alone does not do it either, but one does well to arm the passenger and himself. This should not mean that here at all corners and ends is banged. On the contrary, it has become better. Our district of Krakow is one of the quiet districts, although according to the daily reports of the i- and police leader 8 to 10 robberies occur within 24 hours. However, these robberies are said to have been a hallmark of this country already in peacetime. This is because the majority of the population is infinitely poor, because the division of the land has broken down into small and small pieces of land. Since there are no large cities in this country besides Warsaw, Krakow and Lviv, and the industry was only in its infancy and still is, it was not possible to migrate the sons and daughters born to the cities and to the industry. One therefore helped oneself with a division of the ground and soil into smallest particles, which also the most undemanding a basis of life in many cases B.w. St.M. TVD-65 qu/43