STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2047, sig. 109-7/54

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92 Dr. jur. Roland Freisler Berlin W 8, 31 July 1940 Slaatssecrelär TO für die beseizien puialeekan Geulete KANZLET RURB Eing. 2. AUG. 1940 BUCE Book No.... E2620740 - m90 SIROT Dear comrade of the party frank! I personally closely followed the case against Koranda' and krie gl for the killing of the two Sudeten Germans B ö b m unò 6 o ff m a n n in Eger on 21. 5. 1938. With Jhnen, I consider the execution of a criminal prosecution against the perpetrators very desirable if it can lead to a judgment of this nature. However, Jch believes that a conviction for the following reasons is un=probable: 1. The perpetrators refer to the order, which fie had actually received: to shoot anyone who leaves the city and does not stop at the call. 2. If Böhm also declared shortly before his death in the hospital that he had not heard any call, the call should be fixed. Because not only the Czech publicist Roubicek heard him, but above all the German witness Dümml. 3. The admission of koranda, he did not want to kill, will not be safe to refute because he eats a bad shooter and because shots from a military rifle - at the next distance - go too high. Even if he has targeted the tires of the krastrades, it is therefore possible that he met the Germans. A punitive race that would end with acquittal or - which is more likely