THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 971, sig. 110-8/44

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Prague, April 4, 1944. lUt Note : Betr.: Conversation with the Chief of the Order Police, General -nt . the police Wünnenberg.v TOTOB -doss In the course of the conversation with Wünnsenberg about the activity of the mission staff II, especially the Major Jurk, tried to intervene visibly for the Wünnenberg at the beginning of the discussion, explained to me after the knowledge of the expert that of course the matter had to take its normal course. Wünnenberg told me that he had been called in Berlin by Colonel-General Daluege, who, in some cases shouting out loud, made the announcement of the Jurk's relationship and found that he (Daluege) was still a hundred per cent behind Jurk and covered him in everything because he looked at him as his absolute trusting man and considered him to be a clean, decent and once qualified police officer. In this conversation, Daluege had asked Wünnenberg to intervene immediately and obtain the release of Jurk, because Jurk in Prague had been treated in the most common way as a criminal and had been arrested and thus approached a major of the protection police in an unqualified form. In response to Wünnenberg's objection that Daluege should address himself directly to 1⁄2-upper group leader Frank in Prague, Da-luege explained that he had already tried to call several times Obergruppenführer Frank in Prag, but had never received a connection, so that he would have to assume that Frank would be denied. I was able to convince Wünnenberg immediately that Daluege was lying in this respect, as perfectly also about the