English Translation

The Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia I 3 b-5303/40 2092 No. It is requested to indicate each GBejchäftözeichen and the subject in the case of worldly letters. Subject: Nationality of Johann Blechschmied 1.) Note: The postal worker Johann Blichschmied, born on 18.12.1906 in Alt-Rahlau, Karlovy Vary district, submitted the questionnaire for the determination of German ethnicity on 1 August 1939. He gives German as his mother tongue and also has Czech language skills. As regards his nationality, he noted that, according to his option for the Czechoslovak Republic, he was informed by the Ministry of the Interior on 3 March 1939 that he would remain a Czecho-Slovak national. It can be seen from the options files, which have now been obtained, that although Blechschmied issued an option declaration on December 1, 1938 for himself and his family 3, the Ministry of the Interior, by communication 912 of March 3, 1939, indicated that the option was irrelevant, W because it did not become a German national under the state contract. On October 1 938 he had his residence in Rokitzan in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Since his entry into the postal service in 1937 he listened to the central postal union Prague, as a national of his wife he gives the Czech. He claims to have sought 5 classes elementary school and 1 class civic school in Alt-Rohlau. The district leadership of the NSDAP reported that Blechschmied had formerly heard the Czech Social Democratic Party and was Marxist-minded. He acted as a spy in the time of struggle and carried everything he heard to the Czechs. He was totally unreliable politically. During the occupation of the Sudeten area he fled from Alt-Rohlau to the rest of Czechoslovakia. The State Police Department reports that tinsmith probably