b. The Foreign Office, attention: Councillor [AMTS- and HOFRAT] SCHIMPKE or his deputy in office.
c. The Reich Minister of Justice, attention: Ministerial Office Director STADERMANN or his deputy in office.
d. The Reich Minister for Education, attention: Government Councillor [Regierungsrat] JAEHNERT or his deputy in office.
e. The Deputy of the Fuehrer, attention: SS-Inspector KNOBLAUCH or his deputy in office.
f. The Reichsfuehrer SS and chief of the German Police attention: SS 2nd Lt, Government Councillor Dr. TANZMANN or his deputy in office.
SUBJECT: Concordat between the Holy See and the Republic of Austria.
The question of further validity of the Austrian Concordat (Konkordat) which has already been brought up by the Reich- and Prussian Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs in his letters to the Foreign Office of 22 March 1938—II 1563/38—and of 26 March 1938—G II 1596/38—, is one of fundamental importance for a number of matters to be worked out by the central office for the execution of the reunion of Austria with the German Reich as well as other offices of the Reich and Austria concerned with it. This question has to be brought to a conclusive clarification immediately.
I deem the following conceptions possible:
The Concordat will not be considered as binding already for the reason that it has not at all been reached within the framework of the constitution.
The more detailed reasons for that are evident from the following: