STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2554, sig. 109-12/201

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72 - D e r Povidelkuchen In the autumn days of 1938 the following murmurs were told: The guide was once a guest at Benesch in Prague. There were Kolatschen, the Bohemian favorite dish. Hitler - but only ate the edge of such a cake; the center with the Povidl he gave back to his host and said: "You can keep that!" Rand and Povidle were interpreted as sudetenGerman territories and rest of Czechoslovakia. Povidll: Plum, very popular in Bohemia.