English Translation

21 Copy: Moravia-Ostrava, 13 February 194l. To the Lord Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague. Senate building. Betr.: Dejudigung des Modenhaus Rix in Mähr.-Ostreau. Reference number No. II/l Jd. 40.204/40. The district management of the NSDAP in Moravia-Ostrava has asked me to submit a proposal to the department of the Lord Reichsprotektor, which allows the takeover of the fashion house Rix by local applicants. I apply. as you know, even around the fashion home Rix, but received on the l6. Noveyber l940, reference number no. II/l Jd. 40,204 the decision that as sole buyer Mr. Alfred Wieland, Halle / Saale, had been admitted. For the purpose of deferring my interest in buying, I was given the following reasons by the responsible officer of your office: l./ Mr. Alfred Wieland had asserted his interest in purchasing in advance of me in time, 2./ The financing was not secured in the case of an aryanization according to my plan, I would like to point out to you that I have been trying to acquire the fashion house Rix since May l939, under express approval of the competent authorities, i.e. If the Böhmische Union-Bank wrote on my behalf on 1 October l940 to your office because of my interest in buying, this does not mean that my purchase intensities arose at that time. The letter of the Bohemian Union Bank had rather, as is apparent from its content, in particular the purpose to inform you that with regard to the attitude / 1J 5851 41