THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 774, sig. 110-5/64

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The General Officer V 1 Prague, 28 October 1944. 41 Secret home Mr. Entered the....197 Abtei lungs l e t er v Asaundlaiter V im Hau se. Subject: Gold sight account - Depot at the BIZ, Basel. Reference : Order of 17 October 1944 - V - 497/44 g - . The credit of 7,37374 kg of fine gold on behalf of the Kgl. Hungarian Postal General Directorate, Budapest , represents the equivalent of the active peak of parcel and telephone traffic between the Protectorate 7 ems Ee Bohemia and Moravia and Hungary for the period from 1 July 1943 to 31 December 1943, which was to be settled by 30 June 1944 according to the intergovernmental agreements in the gen- vavidlen a. mentioned manner. This is not an effective gold stock, but a gold-based gold sight account, which can be converted at any time into an Sfrs balance at a deg trk Swiss bank. On the basis of the German-Hungarian government agreements of pake ae 18. From 1 July 1944, payments from the settlement transactions of the postal administrations in the German-Hungarian currency A drdag jie compensation will be transferred, so that in the future Sfrs will no longer arise from the said settlement transactions. An amendment to this agreement was rejected by the Reichswirtschaftsminister - 3 the dams, that the foreign exchange advantage for the German Reich is greater than the loss of foreign exchange of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. d. e.d. The letter of the representative of the Foreign Office of 10 October 1944 is attached again....Ministe amt 1. Eing: 24. NOV. 1944 Orn df peceez Hatpibio et. Hubfh 1 Onhoge b.w.! may fumibunfan jiakguieff. hir'tre Duan H-90a/44g