English Translation

The leader of Prague-Bubentic 6 June 1941 of the SD-Ceitic section Prague Sachfenweg Fernfprecher 77444 L - VÁ 52 B r Nee sdtior r in Bohemia and Moravia Frank Sape das.uSda Da bein Redi p o.ek:oc in Bökmen una mahcen. Eing.: 11.JUNI 1941 Verlag, Prague In March 194l, the editor of the "Neue Tag", Mr. L a n g h a n s, was presented to my department and presented the following facts: For the purpose of the influence on the Melantrich publishing house, a syndicate agreement was concluded between the administrative office of the Reichsleitung for the press and the Czech Melantric stock owners Šalda, Mengr and Hašek. The aim of the syndicate is to acquire as many shares as possible of the Melantrich publishing house, with the condition that each group always receives 50% of them. Now the secret state police has confiscated 625 shares of 450 of the melantrich publishing company from the property of Eduard Benesch. In order to acquire these shares, the representative of the one syndicate group (administrative office of the Reichsleitung für die Presse), director Novotny of the Böhmisches Escompte-Bank, approached the secret state police in order to purchase the shares for this group. Forcibly, half of the shares should have been delivered to the Czech group under the syndicate agreement. At the same time, however, Mr. Langhans also approached me as a representative of the same group to acquire the shares without having Director Novotny knowledge of St. S.IE-53a/4 b.w.