Published Transcription — Heydrich to Bormann, 16 May 1942 (page 93)

Page 93 of an unidentified Sternberg family memoir or publication containing a transcription of the Geheime Reichsssache letter from Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer, to Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, dated Prague, 16 May 1942. Subject: Dispossession of the Czech nobility. Names Czernin among ten principal targets of forced administration. Explicitly references Ostmark as a sphere of the targeted families harmful activity. States the September 1938 Beneš declaration as the causal basis for the measures. Records that Heydrich personally rejected all interventions on helped of the target families. Author states the document was preserved from the Documentation Archive of the Office of the Reich Protector, found in Prague after the war, via the estate of Leopold Sternberg. Publication identity to be confirmed (enquiry sent to Jan Drocár, March 2026).

Page 93 of an unidentified Sternberg family memoir or publication containing a transcription of the Geheime Reichssache letter from Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer, to Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, dated Prague, 16 May 1942. Subject: Besitzenteignung des tschechischen Adels (Dispossession of the Czech Nobility). Names Czernin among ten principal targets of Zwangsverwaltung. Explicitly references Ostmark as a sphere of the targeted families harmful activity. States the September 1938 Beneš declaration (Treuebekenntnis) as the causal basis for the measures. Records that Heydrich personally rejected all interventions on behalf of the targeted families. Author states the document was obtained from the Documentation Archive of the Office of the Reich Protector (Dokumentationsarchiv des Amtes des Reichsprotektors), found in Prague after the war, via the estate of Leopold Sternberg. Publication identity to be confirmed (enquiry sent to Jan Drocár, March 2026).