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Itt Deag A 41 15234 DR. WOLFGANG STEINBICHL Berlin, 117. Main942. Legationary Secretary at the Federal Foreign Office of the Oberscharführer of the I lofut Waffen SS. Berlin-Charlottenburg 9 office of the state secretary Bolivarallee 1/1 Weayeting at the Reichsprotektor in Bühm n una mähren. ing: 20.MAI 1942 Group leader! In the annex, I send you a letter from the former assistant of the Italian military attaché to the former Italian embassy in Prague, Ladavac, asking you to hand it over to your permanent clerk. Before his confiscation, Ladavac sent me letters at regular intervals, in which he offered his cooperation. Since we in the Federal Foreign Office are able to use people who are so knowledgeable about the language as a matter of urgency, it would certainly be possible to work with Ladavac if he really is as well as he pretends to be. My knowledge of his activities during the war period is limited to the fact that he acted mainly as a kind of better carrier and that - as far as I remember - caution was in place because of his timidity. That is why I have so far waived a recommendation in office and left his letters unanswered. On the other hand, if Ladavac really has the merits of which he writes, (see Appendix) I do not want to be wrong to him, especially since in his letters I would like to respond to some complaints that I have not heard from compatriots for the first time. So I ask you to provide preliminary information on Ladavac so that I know whether I can recommend it with a good conscience for an appointment to the Federal Foreign Office or not. I would like to thank you very much for your greetings after the 1st SS Unterführerschule Lauenburg. Retraining is finished in the meantime; I am too recently on duty leave in Berlin,before I go into the field in the next few weeks. As soon as I have my field post number, I will allow myself to let myself go again. I hope that your work under the new Reich Protector finds the deserved anecnnence and am with the best wishes Heil Hitler! Your faithful minbine. 1 Unhya St..EP-W/4