Page No. 2773. Decoding.
From: Foreign Office 19.9.38 21 hrs, 36 min.
To: Legation 19.9.38, 2330 hrs. Secret code method
Nr. 244 of the 19.9.38 Decoding office 1000 hrs.
Please inform deputy Kundt, at Konrad Henlein's request, to get into touch with the Slovaks at once and induce them to start their demands for autonomy tomorrow. "
' [signed] ALTENBURG
Telegram to German embassy in Prague, instructing them to prompt Slovak representatives to demand autonomy in Czechoslovakia
Authors
Guenther Altenburg (Dr., Foreign Office (1938); ambassador in Athens (1941-43))
Guenther Altenburg
diplomat (1894-1984)
- Born: 1894-06-05 (Königsberg)
- Died: 1984-10-23 (Bonn)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: ambassador (location: Greece; period: 1941-04-01 through 1943-11-03); diplomat
- Member of political party: German People's Party; Nazi Party
- Participant in: Hostages Trial (date: 1947-08-11; role: affiant)
- Significant person: Hellmuth Felmy (role: colleague; since: 1943-01-01); Walter Kuntze (role: acquaintance)
- Place of detention: Nuremberg Court Prison (date: 1947-08-11)
Date: 19 September 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-2858
Citation: IMT (page 2341)
HLSL Item No.: 451906
Notes:Another copy of PS 2858 had been entered as US exhibit 97; this copy was used with the same exhibit number.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
PS-2858: Decoding of wire from Reich Foreign Office to Embassy re request of Konrad Henlein to cause Slovacks to claim their autonomy
Red Series Doc Descriptions
PS-2858: Code telegram from the German foreign office to the legation in prague, 19 September 1938: Henlein wishes the Slovaks to make immediate demand for autonomy