GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 705, sig. 110-4/556

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The representative of the Foreign Office Prague I. 8 March 1944 at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia Feat 6 4, 794, m84, 49 lel5/15 Prot 2 Kroat. N - 1 Anlagé - Dear Dr. G i e s, I have taken note of Mr. ORR.Gawenat of the 1st of March - 9400/394/44 - and I would like to say the following: 1.) The Swedish Consul General has just been with me and gives you many thanks for your personal interest. He will continue to help in the procurement of a suitable object. He seems to have some houses in view and will at the given time inform the Mr. Primator deputy Profs Pfitzner. 2.) The Kroetische Koneul asked, as you will remember, in September V.d. in a letter handed over to you at that time for a minimum of l2 rooms for geine family and the consulates of the Croats. Consul Wittner was prepared to do so, in favour of the Reinhard Heydrieh Foundation, the building dér er erm. To clear the Yugoslavian embassy (Brückengasse l5), where he is authorized to live as a representative of one of the successor states, and to provide his private apartment (4 dark rooms in the IV.Stoek of the Italian Strasae 25). Until now, the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation has only been accommodated in one part of the building in Brückengasse, but has meanwhile been able to rent the large empty building of the former Pram-Zösische Gegelegtschaft. The foundation would now be available for the relocation of the Croats about 5o rooms in Brückegasse and about the same for the French. Since Consul Wittner is very poorly accommodated in person, and on the other hand, the Foundation's neighbourhood with the Consulate's operations has led to inconsistencies, Consul Witner would be grateful for his speedy decision, Dr. G i e s 88-Standartenführer Head of the 1VR-2/43 ministerial office in Prague