Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 817, sig. 110-6/10 (damaged)

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State Miniater SS-Obergruppen führer Karl Hermann Frank Pra a.d.D. about the AsDAF - Gaulei - zung Sudetenland . I/3985- Dr.J/Po Reparation of the disadvantage by the former Czech state administration. Dear Minister of State! The Turngau Sudetenland in the Nazi Reiehnsbund for body exercises were introduced during the still-heltekommiesar for organization of various formerly Czech gymnasiums and mountain buildings, which were heavily indebted. Since we do not have all the resources available for the debt relief of these buildings, I ask you, Mr Staataminister, to provide us with an amount of RM 670.940 from the assets of the dissolved Sokolorgani as compensation for the wrongs inflicted on the Sudeten German Turn movement and on the German sport duroh the former Czechoslovak government. In order to justify the request, I would like to mention the following: a large part of the tax revenue of the Czechoslovak Republic flowed to the state administration from the Sudeten-German territory. From these resources also the anti-German Czech fighting organizations were supported, whereby the Czech sport, especially the Sokol, was particularly concerned. Thus, the Czech sports associations alone received 27.225.001 tsch crowns from the Ministry of Health in 1920 - 1937, while