STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2255, sig. 109-11/56

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P.S. XI B 213 a/41. Prague, 13 February 1942. 11 1) Note. According to the file, the case of Zaccaria is presented as follows: 1. On 9.10.v.Js. a search is carried out by mistake with the Italian national Zaccaria. 2. On 13.10.vs.Ys. Consul General Caruso submits a Jntervention to Consul-General v. Janson. 3. On 16.10.vv. Js. the representative of the Federal Foreign Office to the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia directs the Jn-tervention in copy to the State Police Department in Prague for an opinion. 4. Already on 19.10.v.Js. Caruso recalls the responsibility of the Jntervention. 5. On 22.10.vv.Ys. 6. On 22 October, the representative of the Federal Foreign Office replied to Caruso's Jntervention, based on the opinion of the Prague State Police Department. 7. On 22 Oct., v.Js. Talks to Caruso at the 4-group leader Frank and discusses the Zaccaria case. Group leader Frank orders a review of the Zaccaria case. 8. On 12.11.v.Js. In pursuit of the investigation ordered by group leader Frank of the head of the Prague State Police Department to the commander of the security police and the SD, reports that criminal commissioner Schultze personally apologised for the Jrtum in the order of the search at Zaccaria. Zaccaria had offered himself as a trusted man during the course of the conversation. Caruso's renewed complaint to group leader Frank would need the sharpest rejection.