English Translation

19a. He agrees with the submission of Slovak works to the Slovak State; for the remaining Czech and German literature of the Institute Library, there is no interest in the German Historical Institute in Rome. He considered it appropriate to return and hand over to a Prague library, as a stay of the library in Rome was in some form undesirable. 3.) On 31 July 1941, Group I/10 submitted to the Secretary of State an order to the Prime Minister in Prague asking him to close the institute with immediate effect and to have the library, with the exception of Slovak works, returned to Prague. Copy of this order should be sent to the representative of the Foreign Office. The letter did not come out because on the 1.8th of Dr.v.Both it was reported that the Institute in Rome was already being supervised by German security bodies. The inquiries of the SD-leitungspart Prague at the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt 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 Prague receives a copy of the above note with the request for independent information of the Reich Security Main Office and of the Police Attaché at the German Embassy in Rome. II. Letter: 1.) To the Minister of Education and People's Culture, Colonel Emanuel Moravec, Prague III., Carmelitergasse. Personal! Subject: