English Translation

31 Division IV The Head of the Press Group. Prague, 12.1.1943. 3 n sakreärs 1 u o.ektor Manähren. Cng 14. JAN. 1943 To SS-Obersturmbannführer, Ministerialrat Dr. G I E S , P r a g IV., Czernin-Palais. Subject: Press club of l939. With reference to your note St.S. VI A-10 h/42 of 31.12.1942 I inform the following: SA-Obersturmbannführer Dobner, the head of the Prague department of the Supreme SA leadership, told me orally 2 days before the lecture of the SA Obersturmbannführers Luiken that SA-Group leader May would come to Prague and probably discuss the question of the further examination of the command office of Bohemia and Moravia of the Obersachsen SA leadership in the building of the press club of l939 with SS-group leader Frank. On the occasion of my oral lecture with the group leader on 2g.ll. 1942 I informed the group head of this. The group leader then asked me how many rooms the SA had rented in the press club and asked me to determine whether the SA department could not be accommodated in the Sia building in the foreseeable future.I told the group leader that the Oberste SA leadership in Beethovenstrasse No.29 8 used very large rooms, which the Press Club absolutely lacks. A rental of this service could not be considered as such long as no suitable spare rooms had been found for the SA. On the other hand, it would be urgently necessary, by mutual agreement, to persuade the SA to hand over 2-3 of the rooms rented by it at the 2nd floor to the Press Club and to retain the remaining 5 rooms. This demand would be justified in every respect, since the rooms in their previous number are not used away from the SA. In addition, in the rooms rented by the SA the best and most representative pieces of furniture / furniture, carpets, pictures etc. / from the whole house of the press kluh have been carried together, which now as well as the rooms of the Presse- √A-10/42