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H 11 befee i . Karl Knaute, frncard Prague, the 28.8. 1941. OeE 225.a0 0.190 e. e Diua das Siaa sfekretärs Prague.I.Ufergasse b Fed p.o.ektot Oberlandratsamt. in Böhman and Mähcen. bnlegies. Eing.: 30.AUG.1941 To the 179 in Prague. Dear Secretary of State! Please forgive me if I turn to you privately today with a request. Only the uncertainty about my future fate causes me to take this step. I am SudetenGerman and as such since 6,2, 194l official at the office of Lord Superior Council in Prague. Until 27 May 1940 I was by 16 years cashier with the municipality Arnsdorf, district Böhm.Leipa. On the basis of the circular issued by the RMdI from 23.6.1939, I d 155/39 - 5604, I had registered as a registrar for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In the circular decrees it was stated that the registrars in the protectorate are transferred as government inspectors to the Reichsdienst. One reason for my decision to join me, because I had no prospect of moving forward with the municipality of Arnsdorf at the time, as only one inspector's post is available in the job plan, which was filled with an almost equal-old inspector. My application was made in July 1939. On 27.5. 1940 I received the secondment to the Oberlandrat in Moravia. Ostrava, I was thinking of standing in the turned Moravian. driving empires to the