English Translation

Copy Berlin W 8, 28 April 1942 On the report of 7 April No. 412/9 D Kult 11 Nr.1 - The instructions of the Ministry of Education and People's Culture to Ministerial Commissioner Stuchlik, accompanied by the report there, refer to the fact that the library and the archival material of the former Czechoslovak Historical Institute will be forwarded to Prague via Berlin. I would like to ask the Protectorate Government to point out that the order concerning the immovable property and furniture of the Czechoslovak foreign service, which has become derelict after the fall of the Czechoslovakian state, including the library, according to cult W 12898/39 (written by the Ministry of Education and People's Culture in Prague from 5.10.1939), also belongs to the German Empire according to the principles of state succession. I refer here to the decree of 20 March - cult W 3578 - in which a provision was already made on the whereabouts of the library. On behalf of Roth To the representative of the Federal Foreign Office to the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia andMähren Prag