English Translation

At the end of the training we had, besides an excellent external description, an official description, which produced a promotion right, yes directly demanded.But now it was called at once, we were too old for promotion, then it was said that we were We do not want to be an official candidate, since the WBK would have omitted anything, then we would have been more dedicated, but the regiment, or the division or the General Kmdo refused to forward our promotion to the Military Office in Berlin. It is certain that the promotion proposal was passed on to the regimental, which then happened, is not our knowledge. Service in the meantime, as it should be, was with troops transporting in Russia and France and going in the next few days to our new place of duty in Lapland to the national shooters, as we seem to be too old for the replacement army.And there is the danger that they will or may want to take on us. Yesterday we were informed, our promotion proposal is at the regiment 296 in Eger and is not forwarded there, as the above-mentioned injunction about former pasterr.ung. Ensigns can only be applied to those who are East-Märkers, and to Sudeten Germans it cannot be applied.So we were confirmed:SudetenGerman-Citizen II.Class. We do not care where we are sent, we will fulfil our duty, how we must fulfil it and how we have already fulfilled it in the world war.We do not forget that the treatment of our question in the course of events is completely, quite insignificant.We would also fulfil our obligation if we had only moved in as shooters, because we are too much soldier.Today we have Everyone must fulfil his duty and use his powers where his powers are needed, no matter in which capacity one is placed in his place, but what we want is no grace,but a right which we have acquired honestly and which we will not let ourselves be taken away from and if the execution should be postponed until after the end of the war. It's a damn hard thing to know sometimes as superiors of Yemen, who only became an officer with the Czechs and if you can say of yourself,I'm not an officer today, because I once appreciated my commitment to Germanism more than being the "honour of Czecho-Slovak officers".What have we done,which is why we are punished. I am a soldier today, and I know that by making myself punishable to You, because I am doing this by bypassing the way of service.However, I still do it at the risk that I may be able to do so if I have a favourable attitude towards you.