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S Prague, December 30, 1943. Prof. Dr. Josef März, Head of the Newspaper Wissepseheftlichpn Instituts at the German Karls University Irag,Prague Eghanc Mozartplatz 3/III. of the Philoiophiden Fakutät of the German Charles University in Prague Received: 3 - 1. FC - To the Lord 6. 3. Fa. German Minister of State in Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer K.H.Frank, Pr_a_g_ IV.2 Czerninpalais. Betr:Please grant a grant for press-related research. The signed head of the Institute for Contemporary Studies at the German Charles University in Prague asks the German Minister of State in Bohemia and Moravia to grant him a grant in the coming financial year 1944/45 to continue his investigations into Bohemian-Mauritian press history and to prepare for publication. The undersigned refers to the documents submitted earlier and today in the annex sends a report on the work carried out so far in the research field mentioned above. The studies were supported by a grant from Reichenberg in the financial year 1943/44. The Gauleitung, the Gauselfverwaltung and the Gauverlag have granted together a sum of RM 6,000.--. The continuation of this grant is initiated and partly already accepted.The research is carried out in close cooperation with the Sudeten German Institute for State and People's Research and with the @auarchiv and is also supported by the German Academy of Sciences in Prague. Since the research is not limited to the territory of today's Sudetengaues, but also extends to the entire territory of the historical countries of Bohemia, Latvia and Eastern Silesia and, in many relationships, spread together in or in other ways, so that a sharp separation is not possible, the undersigned considers it justified to look at the German Minister of State for a grant of the same amount, Ivon RM 6,000.-- /i.W: Six thousand Reichsmark/. The extent to which the added