STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1790, sig. 109-5/18

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11 - 3 - When Mr. Lieutenant General Riege came out of the upper group leader's room, Heydrich, I was alone in the adjutant with my briefcase. I asked him how it had been and Mr. Lieutenant-General Riege was very pleased, and I explained that I was pleased that I had already been sitting here with all the file stuff and that there were still a lot of things to discuss that meet the cooperation between us. I would be very pleased that this did not need to happen in opposition to Obergruppenführer Heydrich. I guess I'd talk to him occasionally, but this statement seems to have been different to Mr. Lieutenant General Riege, because he complained about this my behavior the next day with the Higher 4 and Police Leader, Group Leader Frank. Since my transfer to Bucharest had meanwhile been pronounced and further under the changed conditions it has become impossible to correct the relationship of cooperation in the previously intended form, I have done nothing further as a result of other work overloads. I have written to the files of the proceedings, in so far as they concerned the co-operation procedure. I have returned the proceedings concerning the hamster journeys with the official car of the misconduct of the police to the higher 4 and police leader. I was neither entitled nor obliged to do so after the pronunciation 4y-Obergruppenführer Heydrich ./. Lt. General Riege to this. However, I intended to speak with Lieutenant-General Riege and at least to clarify to him that the content of my files, which I had with me at the time of the adjutant, did not contain incriminating material against the police, but rather, in the main, files containing events that required a debate. Furthermore, from my discussion with Mr. Lieutenant General Riege in the draft letter to Mr. Superior General Daluege, it is clear that I was the one who gave him b.W.