English Translation

Head of the Department of Finance Prague, 27 May 1944. VII - 113O - 90 11944 SOWE W - Obergruppenführer Minister of State P r a n k. Subject: German - Slovak negotiations on the implementation of the agreement of 13 April 1940. Reference: Letter from the Minister of German State to Ministerial Director Schulze - Schlutius dated 3 January 1944, No. M 59/44. The chairman of the German government committee, Ministerial Director Schultze-Schlutius, who is currently negotiating in Prefburg on questions of German - Slovak goods - and payment transactions, has today sent the following information by the Councillor of the government Dr. Winkler, who has participated in the negotiations at times. The Chairman of the Slovak Government Committee, Minister Polyak, has requested in writing that the German-Slovak government committees, in the course of the present session, deal with the following questions: 1./ : The division of the assets of the former Czechoslovak associations entrusted with the management of alcohol, which has become necessary as a result of the disintegration of the Republic and the consequent departure of the previous Slovak confederations. The fixing of the value of the sale for the subsidiary of the company Sublima A.G.in Bressnitz, located in Slovakia, of which 51% was granted free of charge to the Slo=Wakish State in accordance with paragraph 13 (2) of the German-Slovaki= ganisation of l3 April l940, while the remaining 49 %. 5 at the request of the Slovak Government against payment of a purchase price still to be fixed to the Slovak State. Ministerial Director Schulze - Schlutius intends to comply with the Slovak application. He wants to trade on the two points in the week from 30 May to 3 June 1944 in Bratislava and considers it urgently desirable that Ministerial Councillor Schmeißer should immediately come to Bratislava to take part in the negotiations. The German-Slovak government committees are responsible for the questions of mutual goods and payments. The negotiations initiated by Minister Polyak are not related to questions of goods and payments but to the implementation of the German - Slovak association=,barung of April 1 3, l940 on the national debt and the state= assets of the former Czechoslovak republic. These negotiations C3CE-A.W