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Press release The representative of the Federal Foreign Office to the Reichsprotektor Prag III, in Bohemia and Moravia Thungasse 18 Call: 601 41, 779 41,778 41, 64941 747/20 Prot.2 Frankr.Abw. Nr. It is requested to state this reference number and the subject matter in further writing. On your letter of 18 September 1942 - G.Z.ll26/42 - I still do not regret being able to give you a final notice regarding the building of the former French embassy. In response to my repeated requests, the Federal Foreign Office has informed me that the building will be made available to the French Ambassador Seapini's office in Berlin as the property of the Fran- zösische Steate. However, before the formal handover of the palace to the ambassador, it cannot be negotiated with him because of a possible transfer of the building. With the best greetings and salvation Hitler! Her very devoted gez.Gerlach Professor Dr. P f i t z n e r Primator deputy of the capital Prague