English Translation

-abif 157 157 Dr. med.Fritz Plato DRK- Oberstführer Prag, 17 February 1940 2/01 Excellent ! In the wake of my report of the l5.2.l940, I now ask to give up my office as Deputy Head of the DRK Land Office Bohemia and Moravia. I do not have personal reasons, but fundamental considerations. The connection of the position of the respective head of the health care group in your Reichsprotektor- Amt with the office of the deputy DRK-Landesführer is not acceptable. There the medical officer concerned will always be obliged to comply with the exact official service path, but here he must be in the interest of the soldier's strength of the DRK. with all the strength to evade this way of service. It is also true that no senior medical officer is prepared to renounce the persistent and firm representation of his consent, only in order to take advantage of the advantages of a comfort - any disagreement between the DRC leader and his deputy has an effect on the official relationship of the head of the Health Service Group with the Reichsprotector, since the internal affairs of the German Red Cross have entered this official service. But this diminishes the needs of the German Red Cross, because it makes the deputy leader, who is at the same time head of the health care group, increasingly unfree even with all personal resistance. But this can be a stellv.DRK leader before his knowledge $\1}$