English Translation

Karlsbad, 29 April 1942. / Mr. State Secretary SS Gruppenführer K.H.Frank, Prage W.B % Dear Frank Karl! I come to you today with a big request.It is about your influence on the treatment of the take-over modes for former ensigns of the paster,ung.Armee, who are Sudeten Germans c or people Germans from the protectorate.It can be about maybe 5oo former engravers here.I send out immediately that an influence in military places is useless to us. It seems that, in all the benevolent opinions of the highest military authorities and their understanding, there are lower places where simply the concept of the former österr.ung.Fähnriches, who at that time was already considered an officer, is not to be explained, since she confuses him with the current concept of an ensign of the German Wheremacht. Nothing other than the designation of a member of the Wehrmacht who may become an officer.On the other hand, there is perhaps no will to understand this or the aversion to the former pasterr.ung.Armee before and thereby a failure to complete.The treatment of the solution to the question of the former oesterr.umg.Fähnriche developed like this. All former ensigns of the old Armee, who were East-Märkers, were appointed after a two monthly duty period with exceptional and official suitability to lieutenants with the rank age corresponding to their participation in the Veltkriege.After the conclusion of the SudehenGerman *ebites we immediately after the call of the former reserve officers to report. and were recorded by the İbtlg.IIa of the district kmd. We have filled in and submitted the forms necessary for the Meldun..In the event of the outbreak of war, some of us immediately volunteered and were also immediately drafted as lieutenant by the WBK, which held the position that we were to be taken over as lieutenant.