English Translation

National[ozialisti[che Deutsche Arbeiterpartei Bau Sudetenland Kreisleitung Mähr.-Østrau To the Herr Reicheprotector Der k.Kreisleiter. für Böhmen und Mähren, z.H.des Herrn Steatssretär 8/m K. H.Frank, Prag_ :Czerninpalais. K/274/M Mähe.-Dstrau, den 15.Augus Unser Zeihen: Jhr Beichen: Fernfprecher 20.55 Beistand: Anfrage um Einrichtung der Studienmark. I allow myself to approach you with the following request in the case of Pg.Ing. Otto B i e r s ki: The father of 6 children is named. A son is studying in Gau Nieder-Danube /former Moravia/ in an institution which has no parallel in the protectorate area, to which he can transfer the study money monthly. By the conversion rate 1 : 10 which occurred in March 1939, Pg.Bierski got into a very distressed situation, all the more so since the higher standard of living in the Gau Nieder-Danube in relation to that of the Protectorate made it very difficult for him to study there himself. I have already had this matter dealt with by the Oberlandrat, as is apparent from the accompanying copy of a letter from the National Bank, and I have not received a favourable report from the Bank of the Federal Republic of Germany on this matter. After such cases are repeated more often and the parents of German people bear this extra burden only with the heaviest victims, I ask you, in the sense of a legislative regulation, to arrange that the conversion rate of the 12134