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

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52 26 May 1939. The Secretary of State. To Mr. President of the Government Pg. Kr e b s , Aussig. Dear Pg . Krebs ! Dr.Kinzel,Reichenberg, I received the following letter in the matter already discussed with Bir: "Referring to our conversation of 23 April,I announce that the invitation letters to Willi Heger, AusSig, to conduct the "Lohengrin" in a guest manner, on 24 April and 2.5. to the address given to us by Dr.Oberdorfer. they see from it that we have done everything to convince us of the ability of Heger's former Wagner conductor to perform." I do not fail to inform you of the presiding position, and hope that with it another contribution to the clarification of the matter has been made.