STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 463, sig. 109-4/208

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Oer Dutreter Des Flusürtigen Rms t Prag, the 23rd M a i 1942 No.14/11 D Cult 11 Nr.l L Bilt! Büco des Stadslelkerurs Subject: Removing cultural relations beta Reithsocorek between the Protectorate and the In Bohemia uo Mahen. Kingdom of Italy. Eing. -4.JyNI1942 To the letter of 10 March 1942 - I 1l No. V $ - 2 - 149/42 - The Federal Foreign Office has asked me to determine and to report on the exact numerical amount of the grant from the Ministry of Education and People's Culture to repair the facade of the Italian Vaisenhaus in Prague II, and to speed up the payment of the approved amount to the builder. Because of the structural improvement of the Italian Chapel in Prague I, the Federal Foreign Office, in its instructions to the German Embassy in Rome for the meetings with the Italian Government, has expressed the assumption that Italian geites also consider it appropriate to take over the repair costs for the Chapel by Italy, as it is under the Fatronat of the King of Italy, and the Italian Ministry of the Outside the Chapel in its you with my letter of 26 May. January l942 - No.l4/2 D Kult l1 Nr. 1 - did not particularly mention the document sent to me. Now, however, on 22 May 1942 the Italian Consul General came to me and asked me to work on the payment of allowances for the orphanage and_ for the chapel still in Leufe. des Somser l942. Knownly, the cost of setting up the chapel amounted to around. 7,000.-RM, of which 3,300.- Rä duroh donations were made by the Minister for Schuivesen and Voikekultur, the State Authority and the Magistrate in Freg. For the time being, I cannot see whether the Federal Foreign Office will consider it necessary, in view of yesterday's intervention by the Italian Consul General, to decide whether to grant a separate grant for the Kepelle; however, in order to secure a further margin for its decisions and discussions with the Italian Government in the run-up to the Foreign Office, I would ask that the subsidy from the school administration be set at a maximum level - Group I 11 Prab S .TB-10/42