STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2201, sig. 109-11-2

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158 -2 - know never to be responsible. It is therefore necessary from these fundamental concerns the separation of the two offices. I may ask you, Excellency, to appreciate this attitude and to comply with my request. I have the firm will not to depart from it any more and therefore ask you not to bring me into new conflicts of knowledge. These could arise so exceptionally easily, because I am devoted to you, Excellency, in such a special respect. If you still allow me to make you, Excellent, a proposal regarding the choice of the new deputy DRK leader, I call Prof. Dr. Strauss. He is personally capable - of passionate commitment to the cause which he takes over - and, as professor of German surgical medicine, he is excellently able to increase the objective tasks which the DRC performs; he has good relations with the Wehrmacht and enjoys what is so urgently necessary for the late construction of the German Red Cross in Bohemia and Moravia, the special trust of the NSDAP. o Coffwitt fiw lau quwnu Haaliuruurir. n. plaso 4. bre.2.a.d. /.18/2.40.