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10 The Commander of the Security Police and SD 23. J u 1 i 43 Prague, 19 XIX, Kastanienallee 19 Telex 70615, 70465 Tgb. No. B. d. S. -T ne 964/43. 1 State Secretary Request to indicate the date and date of the reply given above. aPeichsprotector in uin and Mahrer JE 27 JULY 1943 To the higher W- and police leader M-Obergruppenführer State Secretary F r a n k Pra Betr.: Paintings from the wealth mass Dr. Philipp Ritter v. Gomperz. Preliminary note: Oral order of 22 July 1943. State police lekehn of 1.4.1942 moved in in favor of the A Reich. Part of the property, including the collection of paintings, which was never on protectorate territory, had been moved by the Jews from their home, who left them at the time of the integration of the Ostmark, into the home of their relative, Dr. Wolfgang H a i n i s c h, Vienna XIX, Doeblinger Hauptstr. 94, where they were found in the course of the investigations. For the assets of the Jew Gomperz, which are located in the Reichsgebiet, the Vienna State Police Department submitted an application for the determination of the Reich's hostility and carried out the confiscation of these assets. The collection of paintings was handed over to the Kunsthandlung H e r z i g for storage and maintenance by the Vienna State Police Department on 24 February 1942 in the company of the State Police Station Brno. This process corresponds to the usual processing in the Fällèn, where assets are located outside the Protectorate. The seizure and re-use are carried out by the competent state police control station and is carried out in accordance with the PE