STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1660, sig. 109-4/1415

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2 - To the Federal Foreign Office, i.e. Mr. Ambassador Luther, Berlin W 8, Wilhelmstr.74 -76. As soon as the Church designates its candidate to you, I ask the Church to express that a certain period of time is already necessary until the announcement of the statement of the candidate's identity. I would be grateful if this deadline would be used to obtain my opinion, and I would also ask you to refrain from asking the Church to set up a German bishop in Prague with all its force, rather I would like to leave the selection of the nationality of the Prague bishop to the church itself. I come to this statement, because I see in particular in the Catholic Church no suitable aid in the struggle of the National Socialist Empire. Heil Hitler ! gez: M. Bormann ( M. Boermann ) F.d.R.D.A. 8uge