THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1609, sig. 109-4/1364

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Binf tifan f o. Yrngog, fony mrm 21 4 ad Py. Golr, Rbay 221 April 21, 1939. Chancery. Dear Mr. Thiemann ! Mr. Secretary of State Frank can be used for your beloved lines of 28.3. And he warmly thanks and hears that he has the pleasure of being able to appreciate your artistic work at home at the next opportunity. He instructs the relevant party offices to take special account of you at the event of exhibitions in the Heimgt. 01800 For further content of your letter, we will inform you of the following: Verlag K.H. Frank, Karlsbad, who emerged from the bookstore in Elbogen at the time, was already taken over in 1933 by the then Sudeten German Hei-matfront as a party publisher and was transferred to the Reich after the Sudete German territories were connected to the Nazi Gau publishing house Reichenberg. When the party took over in 1933, the existing graphic holdings would be registered and placed in stock. Among them is also the majority of the originals delivered by Thnen at the time, which are now packed in Karlsbad's depot, Mr. Secretary of State Frank will arrange that the collection will be sent to you and any sheets sold will be paid. Wollex, please, just be patient until the Karlsbach Devot is ordered according to edglinglich. Heil Hitler ! 1.A.: Mr Carl Th e man n akadem.Painter, Dachau