English Translation

3 Paris, 10. 2. 1944 ING. WILHELM KOSTER Dear party comrade Dr. Giess! I have landed well in Paris. Everything looks different here as in our Bohemia and Moravia. I don't want to be prejudiced, because the time is still too short to make a final judgment. We can be proud of what we have done in Bohemia and in Moravia. Although we have sometimes been called hard, it is clear that this harshness, with the justice we have practiced, has been the means to achieve success. I cannot give you a detailed report, as you would like it to be, today, nor can I, for reasons of certainty, put such things in a letter form. I will personally thank Mr. Minister of State for the award of the Cross of Merit in Classes, but you may have the assurance that I will continue to be one of his faithful. At the end of February or at the beginning of March I have to go to Berlin for an interim report. On this occasion I will drive over Prague and, of course, I will come to you. I would like to send the Cross of Merit to my address in Prague, Prochaska-Gasse No. 3, or, if you think it is better, I would pick it up from you when I am there. I thank you once again for all the good and your comradeship, I remain with friendly greetings and salvation Hitler! You