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BiadaCasei u LA ManceR. Note. Euy 18. SEP. 1942 fe ib aebdennöx nsllededeer noobet nor sob nsl Betr.: Submission of Mr. Oberreg.-Rat Z ank Tbetr Summary of the library available at the Reichsprotektor's office. Mr ORR Z a n kl presented me yesterday with a proposal for the AM BTMES Secretary of State for the co-signation, which provides for the compilation of the libraries available in the departments Z and IV and in the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office under my direction. At the same time, the document provides for the transfer of the personnel of the Political Archive of the Foreign Office (1 head, 2 scientific assistants, 1 clerk) to the service of the Reichsprotektor.oss d gou PWNE OBP luted egs I have signed this document, since a criminal summary of all the libraries in the house seemed to me to be desirable and Mr ORR Zankl assured me that Mr. - Consul General G e r l a c h had already given his consent to the proposed solution. However, since I had the impression, during the discussion with Mr. SAor.tce&.ar ORR Zankl, that he was too interested in the library question in his plan, while the archive itself was almost not interested at all, I think it is appropriate to stress that my participation in this plan and that of my staff is only possible if at the same time the entire political archive of the Foreign Office was taken over by the authority of the Reichsprotektor. However, this also depends to a large extent on the approval of the Foreign Office, which has already rejected a similar application (letter of the Reichsprotektor to the Ausw. Amt of 6.2.l942 - Nr.I 3 e - l7) (letting of the Ausf. Amtes to the Reich Protector of 31.3.l942- No.Pol.Arch.334). In this connection, I should like to ask myself not to approach the Federal Foreign Office with a new request of this kind before it has given its final approval to the publication of my brochure "The Hájek Fund". Since once there was talk of uniting the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office with the archives of the Secretary of State, it goes without saying that Mr Orr Zankl's proposal that the archives should be placed under the discretion of the State Secretary after his planned annexation to the authority of the Reichsprotektor of Division IV. For my person, however, I would like to state that I do not agree with any submission to Group IV/2.