English Translation

Draft. The German Minister of State Prague, May 1944. for Bohemia and Moravia. Mr. Ministerial Director Schulze-Schlutius, dzt. P r e B.b u r g Hotel Carlton. Dear Mr. Schultze - Schlutio. My adviser, Dr. Winkler, has reported to me that the chairman of the Slovak Government Committee has requested that the Government Committees, during the current meeting, deal with the piling of the assets of the organizations responsible for the management of alcohol in the former Czechoslovak Republic and the fixing of the purchase price for the Slovak branch of the company Sublima in Bressnitz. The two questions are not connected with the negotiations on the German - Slovak goods - and payments, but form an excerpt from the negotiations for the implementation of the German-Slovak association = l3 April l940 on the State and the State = assets of the former Czechoslovak Republic. These questions have so far been negotiated with the approval of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Slovak Ministry of Finance. The negotiations on the division of the assets of the Spirit Associations, which took place in Vienna on 28 and 29 April 1944, have failed,because there was no agreement between the German and Slovak authorities on a private-sector requirement of 8.45 million K which the Association of Spirit Association against the Federation of Slovak Cooperatives in Bratislava had to be reached. A copy of the transcript of this treat ment is attached to your information. A state intervention in these private law relations of the two legal entities does not appear to me to be factually justified and contradicts the provision in the last sentence of paragraph 1 8(2) of the agreement of 13.4pril 1940. It must be left to the organizations involved to settle the claim for repayment of the loan in an action.The division of the property will have to be deferred until the end of the period, if not, as my agents have suggested, initially only the separation of the land from the land.