English Translation

11 May 1942. Sta. St. S.155/42. 1) To General Wassily v. Biskupsky, Head of the Russian Trust Office in Germany, Berlin W15, Bleibtreustrasse 27. Dear General! I allow myself to give the following clarification: The specialization of archives of mifitarian origin and origin was carried out in recent years in the whole Reich area and is now to be completed in Bohemia and Moravia. As a storage and exploitation site of such writings an army archive branch was created in Prague. If this collection of the local archives branch has recently included the Russian Historical Archives attached to the archives of the Ministry of the Jnn, there has been full justification for this, since the Russian Historic Archives have a considerable cen- tre of documents of purely military origin in custody. These are the files, maps, etc. of the former Imperial Russian army, as well as the former Austrian army of the World War II era. This material belongs to his character, his pro- venience and the current possibility and necessity of his expert evaluation for partly highly accurate