English Translation

S6 Department I S o f o r t ! Prague, 15.lo.1943 Mr Ministe Ministerialrat Dr. P 1 a t o , P rag• 15. OKT. 1943 l ae On your letter from l4.lo . As regards air protection police, I should like to inform you that the convening of doctors to the licensed air protection Police has taken place on the instructions of the commander of the police, without the State Ministry or the Ministry of the Interior having been involved. As complaints have been received from all sides, particularly from business circles, against the somewhat rash measure, a meeting will take place on Monday, the 8th morning of 9 h 3o in the small meeting room of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour (2nd floor), at which Major Bougs of the BDo will make the necessary statement. I would ask you, together with Dr Landmann, to take part in this meeting, and I would also like to discuss the establishment of an alarm plan - which I also think is correct - concerning the use of doctors. Furthermore, I should like to point out that the involvement of Department I has never caused any delay in the treatment of matters of major importance for the war on health. I have mostly voted on your proposals to me with the other papers to be heard on the same day and submitted them to the Minister of State. Nor has either I or my predecessor, Mr Reishauer, ever complained that you would intervene immediately in important cases and, if necessary, that you should also conduct direct negotiations with the relevant health services, in particular the Health Chamber. Even in your direct insinuation with the Minister of State, there would be virtually no change in the current situation - nor would the path from you to the leaders of the NSDAP be shorter, since the Minister for State must be involved in important matters anyway.