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Copy for the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia Dr. Hans Febrans SS Obergruppenführer K.H.Frank. Prague, 8 May 1944. 9S To the representative of the Foreign Office in Böhnen and Moravia Mr. Ambassador of Luckwald, M Minlsteram Prague. 9. MA1 1944 Dear Mr. von Luck Wald! At your express request I will give you a brief summary of the relations of the local Finnish Consulate. The details given in detail are based on partly private, partly official communications which I received in Helsinki and which are essentially confirmation of my own perceptions in Prague. Until 1940, Mr. Prokop Sedlák, Czech citizen, worked as the Finnish Consul General in Prague, whose son was with the company OMNIPOL A.G. Sedlák resigned from his post in l940 with regard to his old age. Furthermore, in l936 the Jew Bruckner, then owner of the Prague iron company BruckNER, was appointed consul, who held this office until 1939. At the time of the establishment of the protectorate, Bruckner fled to Finland. Whether he has remained there or has emigrated further, is beyond my knowledge. Since Bruckner did not speak the Finnish language and also needed a secretary for the performance of the purely consular duties, he asked for the appointment of a Finnish secretary to Prague in l936, but as a qualification he merely demanded that the secretary to be named be "moking able". Since in the Finnish diplomatic and consular service a ge- M St.M.V H-109/44