English Translation

Ver Leiter der Sonderabteilung Kulturpolitik I/Prague, 21. Juli 1943. IV P 69 - 415/43g 2 To the State Secretary H-Obergruppenführer F r a n k. Betr.: Public announcement of death sentences against members of the illegal resistance groups or the municipality. The wish of the Reichsführer W to include in the press or radio stereotype a phrase that Benesch and the Emigran government consider to be the actual culprits in all death sentences against resistance groups and communities since 1.4.43, was adopted by me on 2 July with Ministerial Councillor Krieser in the presence of Attorney General Dr. Nüsslein and Regierungsrat Dr. Welenem von Wolmer. Only a very small proportion of the People's Court's Tribunal's proceedings for the publication of the lonats average of the public in recent months have fallen very much, but only those death sentences have been published, in which a -propagandist or dissuasive We can or must. With regard to Prague, it is above all the point that death sentences for certain offences (weapon cases, safekeeping, economic offences) are decisively justified from the judge's point of view by the deterrent effect to be expected.