English Translation

The Reichsfülhrer=44 10 Sauptamt 44=Gericht Nr. Berlin, March 5, 1941 SW 1l, Prinz Albrechtstr.9. 4-Oberführer M.Tondock Betr.: l.) Room price at the Palace-Hotel. 2.) Continuing the investigation in Prague. Reference: Your reply of 28.1.4l to my letter of 24.1.41. To the office of the S'aa fektetärs 4Obersturmbannführers bein Reio p.otektoc Oberregierungsrat G i e s s , in Bohemia and Moravia. Prague Eing.: 7.MRZ.1941 Czernin-Palais. Tgb. Nr.: Dear comrade Giess! 1.) I confirm to you your letter of 28.l., which I received in Kra- kau, but only now after my return from the Generalgou- vernement can answer. You will probably be able to think that I was extremely quick to hear from you now that the Palace Hotel was already in December v.Js., even though you certainly believed that you could agree to such an accommodation in this House, did not show up for a reduction in the room price and that the difference of daily RM 4.- from your department, i.e. from the resources of the State Secretariat to the Reich Protector, has been taken over and transferred to the hotel.I8S I regret that I have only now received knowledge of this and stress that such a regulation was never intended by me, let alone requested by the Secretary of State. As you know, I did not address myself primarily to the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor, but to the Higher 4 and Police Leader and 4 Group Leader Frank, whose investigation I am responsible for, and until then I believed that 4-Group Leader Frank was my first priority in this capacity. in my first personal consultation with him of 6.l2.4o, on which I wrote a note on the same day, he promised that he would like to be at my disposal at any time with his person and his department to solve the task entrusted to me. 1xb-10d I have received this promise very gratefully, but also at that time not at all thought of it, also about the Higher 4-and Police-