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RNHARD HEYDRICH FOUNDATION FOR SCIENTIFIC PRAG III... 11 November 1943. RESEARCH IN PRAG BRÜCKENGASSE IS RUF: 407-86 Tgb..1856 /43 Bey/Pö Bhgrissoufifo w.d. 3 2.e 1) To the 3 SD (4 ASUAmits Führer des SD Leitsabteilungs Prag SS Obersturmbannführer Ja c b i Fa 1i if P a g XIX, Sachsenweg 44 2) An fRn SS OberSturmbannnführER F i s c h e r , P r a g IV, Adelsstift. 3) To SS Sturmbannführer W o I f , P r a g IV, Czernin. Betr.: Darstellung des Panslawismus. At the request of the envoy at the Federal Foreign Office, SS Oberführers-Prof. Dr. S i x, a meeting on the planned *Panslawisms-Werk* took place on 9 November in Berlin. The secret council of Roth from the cultural department of the Federal Foreign Office expressed the fear that a new German presentation of Pan-Slavism would revive the pan-Slawic ideas among the peoples of Slavic tongue. In the discussion, Geheimrat Roth developed the opinion that Pan-Slavism was refuted as a movement and would only play a role again if it were recognized by the German side as a spiritual potency for knowledge.He therefore had doubts about the treatment of this thema and, above all, about a publication. From the point of view of cultural-political tactics, it was not desirable for a German book on pan-Slavism, but rather a work of Slavic scholars in which Pan-Slawism is refuted. After several employees of the Federal Foreign Office's cultural division had expressed their views on the question, the undersigned took the following position: 1) The work of the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation does not aim to prepare a German polemical writing against Pan-Slavism. On the contrary, it is intended to give the German services the opportunity to inform themselves thoroughly about the overall context. The only presentation that is available in German is a Jew and has long since been scientifically outdated.