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

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St.M. VIII 0 - 28+/44 g. Prague, 15 April 1944. 57 1.) Chancery relies on special bow: #-fauptsturmführer Dr. Ullrich. Subject: Einatzstab II. There is an urgent suspicion that Major Jurk and guests from several castles in Bohemia and Moravia have taken away and subverted furniture, real carpets, gobelins, pictures, silver, service and other art objects of value, or have illegally distributed them to private individuals. In this regard, the Gobelin would be sold to Jurk for RM 15,000.--, and the value of this gobelin really does. I have also received a report that in several palaces of the nobility, Jurk removes valuable art objects and replaces them with worthless objects from the camps of the consignee (for Baispiel Ülgemälie, stings, carpets, etc.) in order to thereby disguise the peeling of these objects. The regret of old Bohemian castles is more severe, known as such valuable art property and partly art-historically captured, and we can call "Nazi" or the police as robbers of Bohemian art property. I ask the hearing judge to do everything possible to clarify this suspicion in order to be able to take good advantage of possible wrongs. Maybe Jurk is to be brought to one or other confession by a skillful interrogation in this sacl. 2.) To the process.