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Translation: “German Military Commission in Slovakia, Pressburg, September 1, 1939. Captain Dr. Nagel has orders to guide the members of the Polish legation of Pressburg through the war zone to the Slovak-Hungarian border. Signed: Franz Barckhausen, Lieutenant General and Director of the German Military Mission.”

Pressburg is the German name for Bratislava, Slovakia. The Slovak Republic was a client state of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. Zofia Drzewieniecki (then Zofia Kryżanowska) was working at the Polish Consulate in Bratislava at the time and this letter was delivered into her hands. The members of the Polish Consulate were safely delivered out of Slovakia and went on to Bucharest in Romania.

Identifier

D355

Publication Date

9-1-1939

Collection

Drzewieniecki Collections, Fronczack Room

Keywords

Franz Barchausen, Zofia Drzewieniecki, WWII

Disciplines

European History

Letter from Lieutenant General Franz Barchausen

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