English Translation

The Neichsprotector 28 in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, the... 4 June 1940. he representatives of the Foreign Office No. 6098/D cult 10. It is asked to examine this business and the subject matter in further letters. Subject: Compensation of an Italian professor for lost property. He f MWa 9 The Italian Consulate General had already announced in June of this year that Dr Nicola d'Alfonso, who had been a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy until the closure of the Czech universities, had lost a gramophone in the value of l50o K, which he used for his lectures on Italian. Since the investigation revealed that the supervision and administration of the occupied university buildings constituted a matter for the SS headquarters in Prague, I had turned to SS-Standartenführer Ballauf, but his efforts as well as those of the rector of the German Charles University on the acquisition of the gramophone were unsuccessful. The Italian Consulate General, to whom this negative result has been communicated, has now asked me to replace the value of the lost gramophone with the Italian State Authority d'Alfonso. of Burgsdorff, gl 8 in Prag, Czernin - Palais.