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Political Archive No Archive 115/43 Prague, the 2nd of March 1943. Brgyeons ? C Ve r m er k. - 2nd APR. 1943 Betr.: Kabinettakten aus der Kanzlei des Präsidenten. On March 23rd, l943 in the morning, I visited Mr. Section Chief Popelka at the President's Office.First, the case of the alleged Beneš letter to the Czech writer Č a p e k, of which Mr. section chief Po- pelka told me that he was unfortunately undetectable. He had, however, instructed Mr. Sc h e r ks to seek out, among the firm's confidential activities, all the operations relating to Beneš's relationship to pre-masonry and Judaism. Mr. Scherks, who then showed me a number of such files and assured me, in agreement with Mr. Section Chief Popelka, that I would receive these files for inspection and evaluation. On 24 March 1943 Mr. Scherks visited me and brought me 6 bundles of files, of which l Bundel deals with the work of Be- neš's Foreign Minister, one of whose activities as President. A 3rd contains proceedings of the President's office on the Jews, a 4th on the Zionists, a 5th on a Committee on the Study of the Racial Question and a 6th on Israel. On 26 and 27 March, Mr. Obersectionsrat Scherks visited me again to give me some small files as a supplement to the events that had already been carried out. Overall, it is a file blow of about 25 cm height. The files contain extremely interesting material on Beneš's relations, but also Masaryk's on the Jewish question and Zionism, as well as Beneš ́s on local Preimaur circles.In addition, there are also various other processes concerning the domestic policy of the former Czecho-Slovakia of great interest.Almost every second piece of the file has to be photocopied or translated from this Grun-de.This work is estimated to take about a week. The material obtained will be continuously made available to the local SD guide section, where it will be available at any time for political evaluation.