STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 367, sig. 109-4/112

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Mr. Pilz,who is now at the Böhm.Union Bank, Prague, a modestly paid civil servant,understands - and is very concerned - that he may be able to derive material obligations from the defence of the repeated, totally unjustified lawsuits of Director Dürr, who has grown his fortune. But I, too, can no longer bear to be harassed by an ill-willed neo-rasthenic and with totally unfounded complaints. Kreishauptmann Kundt, who received knowledge of the Kiage and is to be heard again as a witness, wrote to me literally: "Dürr's assertions are an outrageous lie.One must be surprised that a man who, because of his early cooperation with Henlein's opponents, could still have heard the courts in his consecration camp, could have harassed the courts." My request now goes to the effect that you, Mr. Reichsstatthalter, in which you have the right influence on this pro-zess. To intervene in the court proceedings is of course excluded, but perhaps it would be possible, by your authority, for Mr Dürr, who resides in Reichenberg, who would have to be put in a mental hospital, to withdraw his complaint. I will be the 29th and 30th M.in Reichenberg. On both mornings, I am called upon by economic negotiations, but if it were possible for you, Mr Reich, to receive me on any afternoon hour for a few minutes, I would be happy to discuss