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Security Service RFSS SD section Prague E VA 1543 Prag-Bubentsch, 27.1.1942. Sachsenweg telespeaker 77444 1.) To the Deputy Reich Protector Obergruppenführer Heydrich, Eing.: 30.Jan.1942 2.) to the State Secretary at the Reich Protector, Group leader K.H. Frank, Subject: Czech Historical Institute in Rome. Preliminary ruling: ZU 1.) There No. 64/42 of 8.1.942, to 2.) there St.S. V E - 66b/41 of 5.1.1942. Nechmale Refrage bei Reichssicherheitshauptamt und Übersuchung des gesammen Besichts erweitert: It seems to be only due to the lack of information given by some gentlemen at the Federal Foreign Office that the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt - III B - gave the impression that the whole issue of the closure of the Czech historical institute in Rome has not yet been settled from the diplomatic side. In the meantime, the Federal Foreign Office has informed the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt that it is decided in principle to take over the institute and that only the form of the takeover should be clarified by proposals from the Office of the Reich's Protector to the representative of the German Foreign Office to the Reich Protector. It was also noted that in the files of the Reichsprotektor there was already a letter from the Foreign Office (Kult W 3276) dated 27.3.1941 to the representative of the Federal Foreign Office to the Reich's Protector, in which it was expressly stated that, according to two reports by the German Embassy in Rome against the dissolution of the Czech historical institute, "even in view of any Italian interest, no