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tawan Prague, on 4.0ktober 1941. 6 Mr DER PRIMATOR-STELLVERTRETER State Secretary, Ss-Group Leader OF THE MAIN CITY PRAG Karl Hermann F'r a n k " a rag IV. G.Z.1841/41. Czerninpalais. Office of the State Secretary at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and mähren. prgit Eing.: F. OKT. 1941 Tgb. Nr.: Subject: Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Reference: There. Mr. Secretary of State, the decision of the Deputy Lord Reichsprotektor to wipe out and eliminate the pylons in the former grave of the Unknown Soldier, and the decision I received from the High Government Councillor Dr. Giess telephonically passed decision on your behalf, that the grave of the unknown soldier should be completely removed and the relevant places returned to the state of l9l8, I carried out according to your order. The removal of the pylons and the heavy marble slabs in the same place, as well as the paving of the site thus released, were finished on October 3rd at 6 p.m. The coffin of the so-called unknown soldier placed in the Rathauskapelle was disassembled on the same day from 8 p.m. to 10 p. m. by the city councillors Schlossermeister Julius Klein, with the help of the city's German officials Dr.Krug, Dr.Wuch, Director Drtilek and the two German employees Becvar and Strucovsky. Three coffins of zinc sheet were soldered together. The zinc sheet was taken away and removed by Mr. Klein. The skeleton in the third coffin in Earth by Verdun was transferred to a box with the earth, which, according to the confirmation of the secret state police, State police station Prague B.-No. II BM of 4/10.194l, delivered to the secret State police at 10 p.m. on 3/10. At the same time, three cardboard boxes with 237 wreath loops were handed over to the secret state police. The wreaks stored in the tomb chapel were cut and removed. In the altar St. S. √A17 4./41