THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1278, sig. 109-4/1032

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5a Czech people, the ideal basis of the former Czech-Slovak Republic, to finally get out of the world. Prague is for German JSU as well as for Czechs the popular center of the bond. Everything that has had cultural and artistic significance in the Prague past was German or at least German. The task of the Prague Municipal Museum should be to present this German past of Prague vividly and convincingly to the viewer. In the whole Protectorate there is no museum specialist to whom this institution could be entrusted. The Reich Ministry of Education in Berlin has called me Dr.Asche for Prague. The personal impression he made during his visit to Prague with the students of my office and with the German masters of the Prague City Administration strengthens my desire to win him as soon as possible for the City Museum in Prague, in order to soon turn this outdated collection of art objects of all kinds into a sharp weapon of German cultural propaganda. Therefore, I ask that Dr. Asche be placed in the UK as soon as possible. Commissioned by Dr. H e c kel Bübmen Certified: 50240 Creep.