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38 Office of the State Secretary Prague, 20 June 1940. at the Reichssptotektor in Bohemia uas mähren. Eing.: 22.JUM11940 Mr State Secretary, Ss Group Leader Tgb. Mr Karl Hermann Fr a n k , THE PRIMATOR STELIVERTRETE THE MAIN STATE PRAG P r a g IV., Czerninpalais. G.Z.1497/40. 9/22 Very esteemed Mr State Minister! I don't think I should give you the impression that your admonition from Monday on Klapka made. Both yesterday we today he told me with a laughing face that you threatened him with the concentration camp.He seems to be of the opinion that this is by no means serious.Tell me only today that they both , when you told him about ca. 14 If just before the Frankfurt trip had washed their heads because of the a Rosenberg speech, they had divorced in all friendship, that you had attacked him with a thunderstorm this Monday, so that he had already feared that the telephone would go flutes. He will soon, he jokes, take his real permanent deputy with him on such occasions so that he can get his part. Furthermore, he recently laughed loudly that he had already been three times from the Presidential Chancellery in matters of Sofer or paf fols since Tuesday.