English Translation

Berlin W 8 , 22 August 1939 The Minister of Justice Wilhelmstraße 65 Iv b^3 1422 Telex: CeR 11 00 44 Long-distance transport 11 65 16 Agent: Landgerichtsdirektor Dr. Poh l e An den a) Deputy of the Führer, b) Mr Reichsminister des Inneres, c) Mr Imperial Minister of Economics, d) Mr Realm Minister of Finance, e) Minister of Labour, f) Mr Royal Post Minister, g) Mr. Reichsprotector in Bhmen and Moravia in Prague, Palais Czernin. Subject: Enforcement of debt securities in the various jurisdictions of the Great German Empire. 1 Annex With the reunification of the Ostmark and the South with the German Reich, the limits of the jurisdictions to which these different jurisdictions were subject have also fallen, which means that debt instruments established in one of these jurisdictions must be uniformly enforced in all jurisdictions. The same applies to the relationship between the German courts in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the other jurisdictions of the Great German Empire. Furthermore, according to § 6 of the Law on the exercise of the civil right in the protectorate of Böhmen and Moravia of 14 April 1939 (Reichsgesetzbl. I, p.759) to enforce debt instruments issued by a German court or a German notary against a debtor who is not a German national. It follows from this that debt instruments of the courts of the Protectorate in the Old Kingdom must be recognized and enforced in any case within the framework of § 328 of the Reichs-ZPO. Since various enforcement laws apply in the individual areas of law - in the Old Kingdom the Reichs-Zpo., in the Ostmark, in Reichsgau Sudetenland and in the Protectorate