STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2166, sig. 109-7/123

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The Lord Mayor Troppau, on 20 March 1939. of the City of Tropphaus Karl Hermann Fr a n k , State Secretary at the Reichsprotektorat, in Prague. Dear comrade ! With sincere satisfaction I have learned of your vocation to the Protectorate of Bohemia-Mähren. I send you the most cordial congratulations here in my own name, as well as the old German East Grenzstadt Troppauer. I associate these congratulations with the request also in your new position to preserve the interests of our city. To this you, who himself lived in the eastern region, are especially called. Heil Hitler ! Luahid Your