THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1544, sig. 109-4/1298

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(iii) However, as he believes, on the basis of the very serious increase in information, that no reel buyer will be able to acquire the undertaking under these conditions, he asked the official responsible for the assurance that if, due to the failure of the negotiations with the other candidates, the purchase price should be reduced, the company will again be offered to him in the first place at this reduced price. This assurance was strictly rejected. I think it is my duty to inform you of this, and I think that even if it is not about my brother-in-law, such a procedure would be permissible, then any assessment of an applicant or even an instruction given in this direction would simply be to make illusory, since one offers the applicant in the first place in respect of approximately K 3,000.000.-- and since he cannot buy the next one by K 2,000,000.- and if he can not buy again by one million, on which of course he concludes the purchase contract. What I ask you,Group Leader, is by no means a reduction of the purchase price, or even to carry out an evaluation of the estimates, as always, but only to order in a form which appears appropriate to you that, if one decides to reduce the purchase prices, the reduced purchase price is offered again to the person designated by all the competent authorities, in particular the party and the Oberlandrat, as the candidate in question. A copy of the letter of the Reichsprotektor, as well as a copy of an answer noes brother-in-law I enclose. Heil Hitler ! Your tnhuwaly Supplements N 1615