English Translation

-3-16 It is expedient for the High Commissioner in the Ministry of Education, Mr Franz Stuchlik, to bring the closing ceremony personally to Rome. Stuchlik would have to be authorised to take all necessary measures to secure the property of the institute in Rome and to look at it before taking any measures to get in touch with the German Embassy in Rome. The library and any archive material of the Institute shall be returned to Prague, except for Slovak works delivered to the Slovak State, unless, after verification by the Chief Commissioner Stuchlik, a transfer of certain holdings to the German Historical Institute in Rome proves to be beneficial. At the same time, I ask the staff member of the institute, Bohumil Chytíl, to give the order to return immediately to Prague. 2.) Copy (of 1) to the representative of the Foreign Office at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia with the observations that the Minister for Science, Education and People's Education, referring to the statement of the Foreign Office of 27.3.41, Kult.w 3276, has asked to initiate the closure of the Czech Historical Institute in Rome. I ask the German Embassy in Rome to be informed as soon as possible that in the week following the 7.4. the Head of Division IV of my department, Storm Bannführer Wolf and the German Chief Commissioner at the Ministry of Education, Franz Stuchlik, will appear at the German embassy in Rome for the final clarification of the matter. -4-