STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2587, sig. 109-12/235

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9T 1 March 1943. St.S. XII H - 241 c/42. = 1.) To 4-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Brandt, Personal Staff Reichsführers-4, Berlin SWll, Prinz Albrecht Strasse 8. Dear comrade Brandt ! On behalf of i-group leader Frank, I am sending the ż-Leitheft, published in January l943, and I inform you that the text under the picture of the Prague Castle "The Prague Castle is the visible sign of Germanic-German culture and domination in Bohemia. Its Viking founders have been beded at the same place for the last rest." Professor Dr. Zotz - the expert of the German Karlsuniversität für Ur-, Vor- und Frühgeschichte -, who belongs to the ¿, calls the formulation at least exaggerated to the present state of research. Dr. Zetz explains the matter: "In the early-historical Slavic period, since the 7th century CE the West Germanish Franconian influence is significant. and 1 0th century, we can prove that the northern Germanic Wi-kiner Bohemian-Moraries have been involved in their sphere of interest (if I may put it that way). It has been repeatedly suggested that the "Slavian prince"