English Translation

Pos/1. The Wehrmacht authorised Prague, de. 29 December ..19 39. to the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. I/ 7 m Ers.Nr.2063/39 Reference: Letter of the Secretary of State Frank of 14.11.39. Betr.: Wehrsatzliche Schriftenstelle. trozans! 014,130 To the State Secretary, SS Group Leader Fr a n k, P r ag. The equipment of the military office with personnel of Czech ethnicity has only been thought of as an emergency and is even today only one such. After the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the establishment of the military office had become a necessity, since it was necessary to do all the writings of the former Czecho-Slovak army, which according to § 1 of the decree for the regulation of the legal relations to objects of the ex-Czecho-slovak Wehrmacht of 12.7.1939, Reichsgesetzblatt I p.1237 with 15. It was a huge task, as it was about 300 wagons of different files, which had to be quickly captured and removed from an extermination by the Czechs. The German army and the German armed forces had to collect, sift and make use of it for the Deatsche Wehrmacht and the Germans. In order to carry out these tasks, I did not have any German expertly trained personnel at my disposal.However, the establishment of the military writing office in the press, sp. e.g. was published in the "Neue Tag" and other Sudeten German daily newspapers, only few suitable officers of German ethnicity came forward later. These were also immediately recruited. I therefore had to learn to attract professionally trained and politically unsuspicious forces from the circles of the Czech officers, whereby I was particularly interested in former Austrian officers among the Czechs.