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a G.Knispel Prague, 11 July Ig42. Hotel Alcron Prague. Dr. G i e s Office of the State Fehcetärs Palais Czernin at the Reidien otektoc Prague. in Bühmen and Mäheen. Cing.: 11.JULI 1942 Dear Mr. Superior Councillor, Making use of your kind permission, I repeat my personal request for your benevolent support to create a new existence for me. So that my request does not appear to be an intrusion or even an imposition, I have to give some clarifications that you may only know in part. By recommendation of first German hotel specialists I came here in I930 to take over the organization and completion of the hotel Alcron, which is in the shell. If this house did not become a coffee house hotel, like all the others in Prague, but one of the most modern hotels in Great Germany, this is only my merit and only to thank my viél- evaluable experiences, which I have acquired in only the first hotels of the country and abroad through my many years of work. In spite of this, the then mayor of Prague, Dr. Baxa, declared that the Hotel Alcron was not to be worshipped as long as a German director had the management of the house.It also came to anti-German demonstrations and finally, at the end of I933, the work permit was withdrawn. Listening to the advice of our then envoy, I simply did not observe this work ban and was then forced after 6 months by the Czech Criminal Police to give up my post in the Hotel Acron within 24 hours.However, the otherwise usual country renunciation was waived. Only after the collapse of the cschech.slovak. republic I took over again the management of the Hotel Alcron in Jni I939. In a short time I was able to change the house for German taste and German habits and then I always succeeded in JC LM1