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15a 2 Czech and German literature of the Institute Library is not of interest at the German Historical Institute in Rome. He believes that a return and transfer to a Prague library is appropriate, since a stay of the library in Rome in any form is undesirable. 3.) Group I/10 then presented to the Secretary of State on 31.7.41 an order to the Prime Minister in Prague asking him to close the institute with immediate effect and to have the library returned to Prague with the exception of Slovak works. Copy of this order should be sent to the representative of the Foreign Office. The letter did not go out, as Dr.v.Both reported on 1.8. that the Institute in Rome was already being monitored by German security bodies. The inquiries of the SD-leitungspart Prague at the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in Berlin caused the matter to be delayed and not brought to an end. 4.) It now appears necessary to issue immediately the following order to the Minister of Education and the Representative of the Foreign Office, which shall serve as the legal basis for the consideration of the matter by Head of Division IV and the High Commissioner Stuchlik in Rome. The SD section of the head office in Prague receives a completion of the above note with the request for independent information of the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt or the police attack at the German Embassy in Rome. II. Letter: 1.) to the Minister of Education and Volkakultur, Colonel Emanuel Moravec, Prague III., Karolitergasse. Personally! Subject: Czech Historical Institute in Rome.