English Translation

Potsdam-Babelsberg 2 BertinS sk the 11.Oct.43 Btüshevptot. Ferncu The Managing President of the German Red Freuze Ihister Ea: 14 OKT. 1943 Mr. Minister of State ll-Obergruppenführer u.General der Polizei K.H. Frank Prag Elsb Dear, revered Obergruppen Führer! I come to you today with a big request. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, at his personal request, I transferred the position of the DRk-Landeführer Böhmen u. Mähren to the then Reich Protector ii-Obergruppenführers Freiherrn von Neurath. On September l943 Lord v.Neurath resigned this office, after, as he wrote to me, the Führer had released him from his post as Imperial Protector at his request. With the consent of our Reichsführer H. Himmler, whom I naturally asked for his permission before this letter to you, I now ask you, dear Obergruppenführers, to take over the orphaned position of Drk-LandesführER Böhmen u. Mähren. As Thnen is aware, Dr.Plato takes in his own position as deputy state leader B.u.M. the services of the regional office, so that you will not be overburdened unnecessarily with new effort to your great responsibility and workload. However, the taking over of the DRC leader position by your person would only ensure a healthy and powerful development of DRC in tames and meals. I consider such a development to be all the more necessary