English Translation

65 Bug duni dosPekretürs Gruppe I/5 (Youth) Prague, the 2 Re.disprotector in Bohemia unò mähren. Eing.: 28.JUNI 1940 To Tgb. Nr.: 3540 personal speakers of the Lord's State Secretary Dr. G i e s im Hau se M Subject: Castle Kněžnice. Mr. Oberlandrat K r o m m e r from Klattau proposed to the command office Bohemia and Moravia the castle Knëznice at Schüttenhofen for the establishment of a leadership school or a similar institution of the. Hitler Youth. On 23 June the K. staff manager of the command station was with two other comrades in Petrowitz and visited there himself the castle K.. The building makes a pretty good architectural impression and is designed in such a way that without major structural changes it can serve for the temporary accommodation of boys or girls of the HJ. The castle is located outside in a place quite exposed to Germanism and the language boundary. It would be especially important for the reason that 'the Czechs also wanted to build a $26 base for their youth in this castle, in a national-political context, to advertise the building for the purposes of the Hitler Youth. The ownership ratios are, as we learn from Mr. Ober- Landrat Krommer, quite unexplained, and the purchase price would probably be relatively low. Since the summer camp Věšim, which the central social insurance institution wanted to provide to us, and which was now rented to Czechs, as I have already told you in the report of 24 June, we could create a replacement for this failure by pre-emptive provision or acquisition of the castle K.. Mr. Oberlandrat Krommer wants to make the castle available to us for our summer camp campaign in any case, even if it is not possible by normal legal means to clarify the property conditions by 1 July. We agree with him that we find ourselves in an immediate emergency and are forced to settle the castle in any way to St. Sn 3 -3