STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1865, sig. 109-5/93

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52 - 8 - I won the German Deputy Director of the State Memorial Office, Dr. Turnwald, in whose presence next week a most final presidential consultation is to take place. : The plan to carry out a settlement in the whole of Prague advertising takes on tangible forms. Negotiations with the German architect Ahne are under way to win him over as a permanent paid expert and in this way ensure the enforcement of German taste. The ordered removal of all visible memories of former monuments is just being carried out. The Berlin-based company Ala is now involved in the urban placarding institution insofar as it represents the state orphanage fund with 49%. Finally, reference should be made to the question of the Prague border slaughterhouse. Referentéh Klein has made every effort in Berlin and elsewhere to push forward the idea that Prague has a certain claim on a border slaughterhouse and offers the best conditions for this. The expansion in the last year served almost exclusively this purpose. However, as I have heard, in the authority of the Reich Protector, the view is that in the question of where the border slaughterhouse is to be moved, the consideration plays a role, that Prague is said to be a Czech city, but Brno is a German one. Therefore, one tends to think that especially Brno has to be pushed into the foreground. I do not believe that this fchwarz-weiss=painting has a right. I would therefore be very grateful if the Prague plan were to be promoted accordingly.