English Translation

SD-Zentralstelle Prag, 12 August1939 %s1D für Böhmen und Mähren B 3 - PA:1595 46/8 To the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Brigadeführer K.H. Frank, Prag. - - - Czernin-Palais. Betr.: K i t a n o , Japanese journalist. With the request for information, a report on the visit of Kitano to Prague, who is the deputy editor of the newspapers "Tokyo Asahi" and "Osaka Asachi", is sent. After he had previously stayed in London, Paris and Warsaw, where he was received by Lord Halifax, Bonnet and the Supreme Beck, Kitano came to Prague for an eight-day stay. His trip through Europe is mainly a study trip, which is connected with tasks of an organizational nature. Kitano wanted to get to know the relations in Central Europe from his own point of view, since the Japanese public is mainly taught about this only by English and American press agencies. 2 \116 66/9-2-=pm