STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2560, sig. 109-12/20

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SV Prag, 13 March 1941. Chancery relies on special sheets: 13. MI. 1941 Pg. Zank l. The Secretary of State has been informed that the Office of the Reichspressechef has received a detailed reply to the article "Die Markomannen in Böhmen und Mähren" published by Lerch in issue 1 of the magazine "Böhmen and Moravian". The Secretary of State has agreed to instruct you, first of all, to determinate the counter-dispute and to take action, and, secondly, to submit a counter-examination together with the case-law file. Mr Jch may invite the Secretary of State to give a direct lecture on the outcome of Jhr's investigation and to follow him on the occasion of the counter-examination in addition to the file. 2. Wv. 20.3.1941 with the signatory.