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8 November ±944 Security Service of the Reichsführer 4h Prag-Bubentsch, Sachsenweg SD-Leitsabteilung Prag Telesprecher 774-44 III - SA 60 It is requested that each of these matters be kept confidential! to inform the inisteram German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia 4-Upper Group Leader K.H. Fr a n k Eingado 11. NOV. 1944 Prague Betr.: Meeting of the Volksgruppenführer in Vienna am zg. and 29.10.1944 Preliminary report (planning meeting of 6.ll.l944) On the meeting of the ethnic group leaders in Vienna the following was known confidentially: "On 28 and 29.lo.1944 meetings of the people group leaders took place in Vienna, to which 4-ObergruppenFührer L o r e n z had invited. The meetings included:People's leader Dr. J a n k o , People's guide K a r m a s i n and 4-Mainsturmführer M ü l 1 e r , as representative of the People' s leader Andreas S c h m i d t . Peoples' leader Dr B a s c h was not present. During the discussions, it was noticeable that J-Obergruppenführer Lorenz spoke several times to 4-HauptsturmführER Müller as an ethnic group leader and, on his protest, pointed out that he only happened to represent the ethnic group leaders, explained that if he represented the ethnic groups leader, he was ethnic group leadership. The impression arose that the Volks- deutsche Mittelstelle Schmidt wanted to replace and replace ethnic group leaders by Müller. 4-Obergruppenführer Lorenz gave a short speech on the basis of a small note, in which he complained above all about the fact that individual ethnic group leadership directly dealt with Reichsstellen. In particular, Dr. Janko and Gauleiter Dr. J u r y and spoken by middlemen to ýj-Obergruppenführer Fr a n k. It was not mentioned that ethnic group leader Karmasin had directly met with Gaulei ter H e n l e n _agreements because of the inclusion of certain parts of his ethnic group. Through these immediate discussions, a mess now arises. There was no question in any way that the ethnic group leaders in the Reich would appear independently, but they would be the respective speakers of the People's Germans ./. A \F-54/44 W 141