Deciphered Message
From Foreign Office Berlin 24.9 1905 To Legation Prague 24.9 2000
Telegram No. 268. Foreign Office, Berlin to German Legation, Prague on 24.9 1938
Secret Cypher B1 2101/2102
According to information received here Czechs have arrested 2
German frontier-policemen, seven officials. As countermeasure all were arrested. We are prepared officials for the German officials, there and wire result.
HMB/HAB
customs-officials, and 30 railway the Czech staff in Marschegg to exchange the arrested Czech Please approach Government
[signed] WOERMANN
Instructions to German embassy in Prague to inform Czech government of the arrest of Czech officials in Marschegg, proposing an exchange for Germans arrested in Czechoslovakia
Authors
Ernst Woermann (Dr., Foreign Office, Berlin (1938-39))
Ernst Woermann
German politician and jurist (1888-1979)
- Born: 1888-03-30 (Dresden)
- Died: 1979-07-05 (Heidelberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; jurist; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: ambassador
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/3543385
Date: 24 September 1938
Literal Title: Telegram No. 268. Foreign Office, Berlin to German Embassy, Prague on 24.9.1938
Defendant: Joachim Ribbentrop, von
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2853
Citation: IMT (page 2341)
HLSL Item No.: 451909
Notes:Another copy of PS 2853 had been entered as US exhibit 100; this copy was used with the same exhibit number.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-2853: Decoding of wire from Reich Foreign Office to Frague Embassy re Reports on arrest of German officials by Czechs and German counter measures