English Translation

Security service RFSS SD section Prague E VA 1543 Prague-Bubentsch , 18.12.1941. Sachsenweg telex 77444 The secretary in Berlin u-3 Plauen One: 19.Dez.1941 To Obersturmbannführer Dr. Gies, Prae. Betr.: Vork.: According to the announcement of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the issue of the closure of the Czech historical institute in Rome with the Federal Foreign Office has still not been resolved. Although the Foreign Office had in principle agreed to the sending of a representative of the SD, it claimed that the diplomatic side of the matter had not yet been clarified. (The institute had been founded, among other things, by Italian means, so that it should be observed that the closure would not violate the feelings of the Italians.) The final decision of the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt is sent immediately upon receipt.