English Translation

67 Prague, 1l August 1939. 1. V_e r m e r k On the initiative of the Ministerial Councillor Mokry, former Chief of Staff L ö n e r t from Kaaden (Sudetengau) appeared to me. Lönert claimed that he had served as a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian army after completing the Military Academy in Vienna. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian state, he left and joined the Czechoslovak army in 192l. Finally, he had stood with a Czechoslovakian infantry regiment whose garrison had been in the Carpathoukraine (I.R.36). In the September crisis, he was ready to fight with his company on the Hungarian border and, because he did not want to fight against the enemies of Czechoslovakia for chauvinist reasons, on the news of his commander that on 28.9.1938 the outbreak of hostilities had to be reckoned with in the afternoon of 2 pm. He had gone to Hungary, had been deported from Hungary via Vienna and had then registered with the Sudeten German Freikorps (Reiterschwadron Grussbach). He was able to submit corresponding certificates of the Freikorp - what happened. In the meantime he lived as a pensio- nated officer in the Sudetengau and in the course of family research received the certainty that his father's family was Jewish. Although the birth certificate of the father was missing, there was no doubt that the grandmother who had given birth to his father had been Jewish. He had to realize that by his transfer to Hungary, through which he would have wished to serve the German cause, he would now have become a citizen of the Old Kingdom who had been a minor citizen and of the Slovak Government. He had undertaken with the intention and had sent a corresponding request to the Slovak government to register his services as an officer. He asked for the support of the request by the Lord State Secretary and for news whether his intention would be complied with