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0r -Gruppeführer Berlin, 4 January 1943 State Secretary Dr.Stuckart NW 7, Unter den Linden 72 in the Reichsministerium des Jnnern Fernsprecher: 12 00 34 I BM 588/42 2020 An f13/i SS-GrupineführER State Secretary K.H. Frank P r a g XIX e Czernin-Palast Dear comrade Frank! With best thanks I confirm the receipt of your letter of 24 December l942 - St.S 5l6/42 -. I would like to see Under-Secretary of State Dr. v. Burgsdorff recalled and, in accordance with your wishes, I have initiated what is necessary for his UK declaration. I reserve the right to call on you to support the formal request, but of course I will also keep you informed of the course of the matter, but I do not believe that it is possible to use Burgsdorff temporarily in the East Ministry. However, it would not seem to me to be acceptable either, because I must call it a duty of honour to allow v. Burgsdorff to return directly to his former job. So far as the decision on the release application to the Wehrmacht should be taken at a time when a collision between the activities of General Reinefarth as Inspector General of Administration and Re-use v. Burgsdorffs in the authority of the Reichsprotector would make inevitable, so I would consider it appropriate to declare the order of Reinefarth already at the time of the return of Burgsdorfb. I thank you very much for your kind New Year's congratulations. I reciprocate them warmly. 7 With comradely greeting and salvation Hitler!