English Translation

DEr ReichsPROTEKTOR i.B.M. Prague, 6 February 1942. No. I 3 e - 17. Office of the State Office bein Reichsp o In Behmen mon. Eing. 14.FEB.1942 To the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin. 2 about the representative of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Reichsprotektor i. B. and M. P_1_9__6_1- Subject: Political Archive of the Foreign Office. The Prague Political Archive of the Foreign Office, which consists of the records of the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister and the files of the ex-Czechoslovac foreign authorities which have so far been accessible, is managed, since it is only due to the administration of its budget, which is concerned there, with the service of the representative of the foreign office in Prague, so far without any influence from my authority. On the one hand, this practice contradicts the ruling of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of 16 March 1939, and on the other hand, it represents a serious disadvantage to my authority, insofar as it preserves numerous stocks which are of considerable importance for the clarification of acute political questions of the protectorate. I therefore ask that this archive be removed from the previous connection with the Political Archive of your Office and that you agree to be attached to my documents, of course your claims for any information at any time have been guaranteed. From the beginning of the next accounting year, I would then take over the archive, including the local employees, on the local budget. I would entrust the management of the archive to my officer for archives, Dr. Swientek, who had already been appointed in the first months of the T8-1556/41.