English Translation

Copy of a letter from the Reich Protector R.Pr.B. No. 489/42 - from 4 February 1942 to the President Dr. Emil Hácha Prague- Burg. President! I confirm the receipt of your oath of 28 January 1942, with which you convey to me the result of the Czech collection of winter articles for the front. I thank you, President-in-Office, for noting that the Czech people do not take an active part in the Soldatic way of overcoming the Russian opponent, you have called on the people to help the German soldier overcome the difficulties of the Russian winter. Less the number of the overall result in itself (which represents with 3,078,544 percent 1/4 of the collection result of the German population in the Protectorate) is the remarkable, but rather the willingness and the sacrificial spirit of the simple and working population, which - I would particularly like to acknowledge here - of the few that it possesses provided its contribution. With the expression of the excellent respect by Heydrich H-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police