English Translation

SEP 21. 1944 To Mr. Minister of State SS Obergruppenführer K. H. Fr a n k B_u_r_ Dear Minister of the State! Allow me, Minister of State, to express my sincere thanks to you for giving me the opportunity to visit the Mark Brandenburg and visit the HJ's ski jumps. With the district leader Knoop and with my fellow worker Jaroslaus Krigar, who accompanied me, I visited two military training camps of the HJ, the officer school of the division Grossdeutschland in Kotbus, the health service school there itself, the local service station of the Banns and the area management in Frankfurt /Oder/. The second day was devoted entirely to the visit of the Schanzarbeiten and we were given the opportunity to obtain detailed information on the scope of the whole work, the organizational details and all the difficulties encountered by the HJ leaders at work in discussions with all the leading persons of this work. We have been given some valuable advice, some practical experience has been communicated to us, plans and organizational aids have been shown, so that we have returned with an accurate view and with a correct concept of the scope of the organization of such a task. I have convinced myself that the success of such work is above all through the organization. by the organization of accommodation, catering and health St.M.1VB-6{a/43