English Translation

27 Division I Prague, 8 December 1943. be 2 O1 008 4 An Eing.: ZEO 1943 Mr. j-Obergruppenführer Minister of State K.H. Fr a n k. T Subject: Nationalization of the criminal police. It happened that I learned that the intention was to establish the entire municipal criminal police in Bohemia and Moravia. Since the negotiations on the transformation of the criminal police are supposed to be very advanced, I would like to briefly point out the following: 1.) The vast majority of cities with their own criminal police in Bohemia and Moravia are under German leadership. For reasons of national politics, I would call for a serious mistake, especially for the German mayors, who embody the state world and speak as representatives of Germanism, to be eliminated from their position as the responsible head of the criminal police and to create nationalized outposts of the higher criminal service only with Czech officials. As I learned from the Prague State Authority, Dr. Auinger, the government councillor himself admitted that he had worked well as an inspector with the community leaders so far and could not present any facts that they had somehow neglected their community criminal police. He also had to confirm that it is much more preferable to have German mayors in the Crimean police area than subordinate bodies, who come from the area and usually have great political and administrative experience. 2.) Even if, despite nationalisation as a local police administrator, the local authorities should have a certain right of information, the practice shows that such information rights remain only on paper; for if the municipal police officers in the mayor do not V193-52/43