English Translation

Prague, 21 July 1943. 2 ho Re. 0 Betr.: Politisches Archiv la Gehmen unollatten. Prague, 22 July 1943 Office. - To the memory of Obersturmbemaführer J a - c o b i of 17.VI. l943, the above-mentioned declaration between SS-Obergruppenführers P r a n k, SS-BrigadeführER Dr. G e r l a e h and SS-Upper-Sturmbannfänger Ja c o B i took place on 5 January l943. A few days later, a meeting took place at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin between Consul General G e r l a c h and Under-Secretary of State W o e r m a n n. In this meeting, which was not solely about the Czech edition of my book about the Hájek-Fond, Under-State Secretary Woermann gave his consent that the representative of the Foreign Office will be authorised in Prague in the future. The publication of files from the Prague Political Archive, which are important for the propaganda among the Czechs, is also to be released from Berlin without any exhilarating approval.A statement by Consul General Ger- lach that the Federal Foreign Office has an interest in the Prague political archive only for the duration of the war, is only to be remembered in the weakened Porm, that said In the end, the political archive of Prague could not do without the Foreign Office for the duration of the war. However, I had the impression that this view was particularly strongly supported by Consul General Gerlach himself. As far as the holdings of the Political Archives are concerned, which were taken over from the Beneš-Villa in Alt-Tábor only after l939, I do not think it is too much to start with the view of SS-Obersturmbannführer Jacobi.In legal terms, these holdings were transferred to the office of the Foreign Office on the day of the takeover.Thus, the Federal Foreign Office would of course have been just as responsible for these holdings as, for example, the SD agency is entitled to make available to it files which were made available to him by other departments. Secondly, these stocks, both in scale and in terms of their importance, are only of less political value when compared with the other stocks.