English Translation

Secret 8 The GD=leader and commander of the security police at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia 1 September 39 201/39 g Prague II., 19. B.=No. Bredauer Gaffe 18 Btte in the reply give above business sign and date telephon: No. 30041 To the Secretary of State -Brigadeführer F r a n k in P r a g. Subject: Draft regulation on the withdrawal of the nationality of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. I submit the draft regulation on recognition:the; citizenship of the protectorate of Böhmen and Moravia żurück and take this position as follows: the need for such a regulation cannot be contested. It must be possible to intervene against the various emigrants who seek to disturb the quiet development by all means from abroad. Since this does not happen by the protectorate government itself with the necessary emphasis, it must be enabled the Reich authorities to intervene here themselves. In my opinion, however, this should not be so much the heavy weight of the Reich's ministers of the interior and the exterior, but the Reichsprotector itself. The latter is, according to the decree of 22 March 1939, RGBl. I p. 549, the sole representative of the leader and the Reich Chancellor and the imperial government in the Protectorate. l939 the truer of the interests of the Reich in the Protectorate. The decision on the withdrawal of the nationality of the Protectorates should therefore be entitled to him. It is natural that he should present this in agreement with the two above mentioned Reichszental. Such a regulation would