English Translation

My - 3 - to the Iron Cross at v.Burgsdorff and his promotion to the SA group leader and lieutenant colonel of the reserve complicated the location, since now for such an excellently decorated and qualified personality a best use must be found. In this situation - and I have also said this to Mr Pfundtner - I would consider an intervention of v.Burgsdorff outside the Protectorate as the happiest solution. I am thinking here of a use in the Federal Foreign Office or in the occupied and allied territories. I hear that the position of head of the German Civil Disposal in Belgium is to be reoccupied. Mr Pfundtner, by the way, says that he would like to make an effort to appoint Mr Burgsdorff as the representative of Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Mutschmann. I do not agree with the outcome of his negotiations, but I regret the decoupling which has been shown to you, but, as you will understand, I cannot take any other position on the basis of my political responsibility. For the sake of interest, I would like to inform you that I have issued a copy of my draft statute (cf. my letter from the 3o.ll.v.Js. - without a sign PG) to the Deputy Reich Protector, 4-Oberat-Güppenführer Daluege, at whose request. With binding greetings and salvation Hitler! Her very devoted N6CO 2.)