STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1735, sig. 109-4/1490

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12 Prague, 30 August 1941. Mr DER PRIMATOR-STELLVERTRETER State Secretary, SS Group Leader OF THE MAIN CITY PRAG Karl Hermann F'r a n k , P ra g IV, G.Z. 1667 /41. Czerninpalais. Du das Giaaisjahtetües bo a Feidisp otektoe Bdo in Bühmen und mähren. Eing.: 3 0.AUG.1941 Tgb. Nr.: wnfmogballehuprafom Very esteemed Mr. State Secretary! By your adjutant, Captain Haferkamp, you left me on 26/8. inform that in the course of the seizure of the riding school in the tree garden for the police of the order, a decision had been taken by the military council of the capital Prague, represented by the commander-in-chief Dr. Verner, which gave rise to serious complaints and which was brought into an even more peculiar light by a protocol drafted with the current tenant of the said riding school, Mrs. Maceške, in front of the assesor of the administrative police Dr. Zuleger. In this protocol, Verner was accused of using a series of statements against Ms Maceška, which could only be interpreted in the sense that he wanted to give Freu Macežka as much compensation as possible at the expense of the police for national and chauvinist reasons. I immediately quoted Dr. Verner and heard in detail in the presence of the head of my law firm, Mr. Dr.Richter. In the written statement made by Verner on my reproaches, he first described the course of the negotiations he conducted with Dr.Zuger on the seizure. As Ms Maceška, from the outset in the highest arousal, assured that her entire existence had been destroyed by the seizure, Dr. Verner found himself in an unpleasant position to calm her down and find a portable negotiating base. In this context, he also used the words that although she could demand large sums, that only the loss of intake shown to the magistrate would be decisive for the end decision. The sentence that V1H-8/4i