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Press release The representative of the Federal Foreign Office, 2 December 1942, to the Reichsprotektor Prag III, Thungasse 18 in Bohemia and Moravia Telephone call: 601 41, 779 41, 77841, 64941 14/46 D Kult 11 No. 1 No. Ea is requested to indicate this reference number and the subject matter in further letters. Subject: Italian Hospice in Prague III and Italian Chapel in Prague I. Expropriation to the Itslien Steat . In the following and my reports from 20.XI.2942 and 28.Xi.1942 - No.14/40 and 43 D Cult 1l No. 1 The group Justice of the Lord Reich Protector has become the Wunache of the Kgl. Italian Consul General, as follows: "The transfer of ownership of the building of the Italian Congregation and the Italian Chapel to the Italian State is obviously due to a gift. The Italian Congregation's decision of 7.6. In 1942, a corresponding offer was made to the Italian State, which, according to the letter of the Italian Consul General dated 17.ll.l942, was either already accepted by the Italian state or at any rate will be angenozmen. The incorporation of the property right in the land register can be carried out without further delay as soon as a formable document was established about this legal transaction (cf. S432 ABGB.). A decree or a "decision" of the Reichs- protektor does not need to be issued by the regional authority. The authority can be guaranteed by internal instructions on the state authority. If the Italian Consul General attaches importance to a certain ceremoniality of handing over the property, this can probably be achieved in a different way than by a "decretion" of the Reichsirotektor." This opinion is entirely in line with my opinion. It would now be necessary to make proposals to the Italian Consul General to emphasize the solemnity of the transfer of the two objects to his government.