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R 50/6. OBERST-INTENDANT FRANZ WICK 9S Klagenfurt, 22 June 1939. CLAGENFURT. STERNECKSTRASSE 3? TELEPHON 1334 Honored Secretary of State! I had unfortunately not been able to submit to the Protectorate Government, Mr. State Secretary himself or Mr. Excellent Dr. Neurath personally, a proposal that could contribute much to it. Sr. Excellenz and his closest collaborators to our guide, this year a difficult task to accomplish in some ways, both Sr. ExcellenZ as you yourself, Mr. State Secretary were occupied by urgent official business and I then, through advice of your adjutant, have your employee A.V.G.R. Bünger submitted my idea in detail. It concerns the use and classification of former Austrian officers at the Reichsdeutsche Verwaltungsstelle ündWehrkreis commanders of the Protectorate u.z. of such, still in full physical and geistiger freshness standing gentlemen, who for a long time have served in Bohemia and Moravia with Czech regiments, land and people and' therefore the very peculiar, difficult mentality of this busy, soberer, but chauvinistic, insidious people by years of dealing with their dechian soldiers in peace and Krigg know better have learned, when it was otherwise possible for a stranger, to speak the national language and therefore as very valuable helpers and liaisons with the executive and leading authorities of the Protectorate right now in the most difficult time of the waiting absence of the Czech people and the lively submissive whispering and flight ticket propaganda(the value of which I myself ai I stress in advance that, in the sense of the words of the leader, it is difficult for me to use my best for party and empire at all times, first in the last place to do so, since I myself am personally, albeit financially independent, difficult to find, but only for the idea of attraction. You yourself, dear Secretary of State, as one of the very best connoisseurs of the highly involved relationships in the Protectorate and the previous enemy, the Czech people,