English Translation

P Tettc of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia S 658/42 Prague, on 6 February 1942 Your Excellency, Deputy Imperial Protector! For your letter of 4 February 1942, R.Pr. No. 489/42, on the matter of the Czech collection of winter matters for the front, I would like to express my sincere thanks. The praise that Your Excellency pays to the willingness and the sacrificial spirit of our simple and working people fills me with no small joy and satisfaction. I am very much in agreement with the fact that your letter will be published and used in a journalistic way, since I promise myself from the acknowledging words of your Excellency a very beneficial effect on the mood of the population. In my view, this effect could not be an entry, on the contrary, it could only support it if the Czech public were not deprived of the numerical result of the collection. In absolute terms, however, it is undoubtedly a reputable contribution which is capable of helping substantially to alleviate the difficulties faced by the troops on the Eastern Front. I assume that the negative result of the German collection may be partly due to the fact that the Czech organizational apparatus available for such purposes is not yet quite at its height and that, despite good will, it was certainly unable to keep up with this in every respect, first-class German. With the insurance of my excellent chairman Dr. E. Hácha.