English Translation

4 4 of the Prague Consulate, which I affirmed under the preliminary agreement of the competent German authorities. I then first informed SS Oberführer Schellenberg, Sicherheitshauptamt Berlin, and later also the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia SS Ober-gruppenführER Frank about this matter. In the autumn of l943, Koivistoinen was officially informed of his dismissal and asked to seek another job in the Finnish trade. Koivi stoinen decided to take a position at the Finnish society "Compensatia" in Sofia. Since the succession to the Prague post was not clarified and could not be clarified until the present day, Koivistoinen remained until further notice in his office, which he then finally left on January 3rd in944, in order to no longer join the aforementioned company in Sofia, but at the private Finnish company Hilbert in Budapest. The election of the successor brought the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs into great embarrassment, because I had already been asked to take over this post, but did not dare to implement this plan, as it was feared in Helsinki that the already very uncertain neutrality of America would be jeopardised by such a solution. As I have only just seen, it was especially Lundström, a legation councillor in Berlin, who is personally close friends with coivistoines, who pointed out through the envoy Kivimaeki that the appeal of a