English Translation

A b s c h r i f t 21 March 1942. 29 Pol.-e To the Lord Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, - Commander of the Order Police - in Prague. Subject: Wehrmacht convening of police officers. The police director of Brno tells me the following: "I consider it necessary to bring this to your attention. To date, nine police officers from the police department of Brno have been drafted into the Wehrmacht. l Police officers have received a stand-by certificate and 7 officials have received the convening order with an indent date for the next week. A further 5 officers have been terminated by the military registration office in Brno. I would like to point out that certain surveys have to be carried out only by German forces (e.g. assessments of defence workers). Due to the strong departure of German police organs, which in this case would amount to almost one third of the total number (69 persons), the fulfilment of these tasks is very complicated, if not impossible." As I was informed, the release officers have been appointed to the Military District Command from there. I do not deny in any way the need for the confiscation of civil servants for military service, but I am concerned that the already far too weak stock of the police direction of Brno is being so strongly intervened. If German officials are now being transferred to the autonomous administration everywhere, it does not seem entirely logical to me to take the opposite course of action in the police department of Brno. Finally, the police department is an authority on whose good functioning depends a great deal on public security in a city of around 320 000 inhabitants.