English Translation

I would like to comment on the proposal made to me by Dr G i e s, on 28 October 1941, to take over the archives of the State Secretary, as follows: I have been a contract employee of the Foreign Office since 16 June 1941 and will be paid according to the rates of salary group III TOA. In view of this short period of service, I do not want to change myself again without having any special advantages. I understand by such advantages here less a salary increase than a further consolidation of my duties, and also the transfer to civil servants. On 30 October d.d. I had an interview with Dr. I was given the impression that for the Secretary of State, this archive had to carry out tasks in the same way as the archives of the former Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which I am now working, for the Czech Minister Benesch and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I would therefore like to repeat my suggestion, already made by Dr Soenke, that the archive of the former Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is now part of the Federal Foreign Office, should be transferred to the administration of the Reicheprotector. The archive of the Secretary of State could then be a repository of this archive, as was the private archive of Minister Benesch, which is still in the vault of the archive. It could also be housed in the safe. To the objection that the archives of the Secretary of State are purely private, I would like to point out that the archive of Benesch also remained its private property, for the Pall, that the archiy of the former cschechosl. Nevertheless, I could mainly take over the administration of the Arehiv of the State Secretary. In addition, however, the political work of the Secretary of State made available the rest of the archive, which not only consists of the historically valuable file material, but also a political manual of about 10,000 volumes St S.TJ- 158a/41