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. 106 VernerkI Betr.t Conversation with the Chief of the Order Police, General of the Police Wünnenberg-ov tazná ated ttol zezez al egestol dola dab e muina gedron In the course of the conversation with Wunnenberg about the activity of the Mission Staff II, especially the Major Jurk, tried to visibly intervene for the Wünnenberg at the beginning of the interview, 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 loudly, made the announcement of the Jurk's relationship and found out that he (Daluege) after vie put a hundred per cent behind Jurk and covered him in everything because he regarded him as his absolute trusting man and considered him clean, decent and once competent 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 turn directly to the leader of the upper group Frank in Prague, Da-luege explained that he had already tried to call several times senior group leader Frank in Prag, but had never received a connection, so that he assumed that Frank would be denied. I was able to convince Wünnenberg immediately that Daluege was lying in this respect, as perfectly also about the