English Translation

Security Service RF Prag-Bubentfch 26.11.1940.50 SD section Prague Sachlenweg Ferniprecher 77444 B VA 157/B To the personal speakers of the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, 4-Obersturmbannführer G i e s, Prague Betr.: Kulturverband der Deutschen. Vorg.: There. Note from 26.7.1940, here B 2 - VA 157 of 2.1o.1940. On 17.7.194, the chairman of the German Cultural Association, Professor August G e s s n e r, had requested that the appointment of representatives of the Cultural Association of Germans be authorised. The request of the Association of Culture was therefore rejected by the letter of 15 July 1994 to Professor Gessner, which was written down here and which pointed out that the Association was continually assigned notifications which fall within its competence. In the meantime, inconspicuous inquiries could be made with regard to what his V-men's network is intended for. The association still considers the establishment of at least 8 persons in the entire Protectorate as its trustmen urgently necessary for work, namely in the towns of Prague, St. S..f7a