Mar. 3, 1969

Mr Simon Wiesenthal

Mestrozigasse 5

1190 Vienna

Austria

My dear Simon,

The letter just received from Dr Knaus (who sent a copy to you) did not surprise me: I expected it and I announced it in one of my last letters, when I told you that five of the seven publishers who accepted your book had not yet returned the contract signed.

I am always amazed when you triumphantly announce on the telephone that you have received a good opinion from an unknown person and when you conclude that we have nearly enough. Now you can see that even for Dr Knaus, the German contributions already received are of no significance to him.

If you still want your book to be published there is no other solution for you than stopping for several weeks to hunt the SS so as to "hunt“ the famous German, French, British and American personalities whose contributions are necessary for the book...

Don’t you too think so?1Note 1 : Handwritten

Yours,

[signature]

Charles Ronsac

PS: I suggest that you send the usual French letter to Fr. Angel Miguel Asturias , Ambassadeur du Guatemala, 73 rue de Courcelles, Paris 8°. On the other hand,

If you can find the address of the well-known Rumanian writer, Petru Dumitriu , who lives in Francfort, you could also write to him in French.

How about Hochhut , Grass and Kirst? I also suggest that you send an English letter to Constantine FitzGibbon , Waterston Manor, Dorchester, Dorset, England. He has just published in London, a book on Denazification.