Decipherment .
From Foreign Office Berlin 24 September 1556 hours To Legation Prague 24 September 1800 hours.
Secret Cipher
' . pages 2795 and 2797
No. 263 of 24 September 1938
To telegrams No. 432 and 435.
Legation authorized to agree to mutual arrangements for the possible necessary removal from there of 500-600 Reich Germans by special train.
At discretion to agree with the government there the rail-line frontier-place and time of transfer of the people to be returned. Cable report.
Confidential:
Yielding of the Czech hostages arrested here for the prevention of the execution of any sentences passed by military courts against Sudeten-Germans is, of course, out of question.
Woermann.
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Instructions to German embassy in Prague, authorizing it to negotiate the removal of Germans from Prague by train, noting that the Czechs held as hostages in Germany will not be released
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: Decipherment[.] From Foreign Office Berlin 24 September 1556 hours To Embassy Prague 24 September 1800 hours.
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-2856
Citation: IMT (page 2341)
HLSL Item No.: 451910
Notes:Another copy of PS 2856 had been entered as US exhibit 101; this copy was used with the same exhibit number.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-2856: Decoding from Reich Foreign Office to Embassy Prag re Deportation of 500 to 600 German nationals by special train to Reich on exchange basis
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2856: Code telegram from the German foreign office to the embassy in prague, 24 September 1938: if necessary to evacuate Reich Germans from prague, promise of reciprocity May be made to Czech government; but (confidential addition) none of the Czech hostages in Germany will be released
Doc Book Tables of Contents
PS-2856: Secret Telegram signed by Woermann, dated 24 September 1938, to the German Embassy in Prague.