STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1301, sig. 109-4/1055

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II. Preparatory measures. If the aim is to be pursued above, the following preparatory measures would already be possible today, taking into account the current situation : 1.) Support for any economic interdependence between the Protectorate and the Sudeten-German territories. (Companies in Prague, meetings in Prague and deliveries after the Protectorate and vice versa) 2.) As a centre, Prague is becoming more and more effective: a) economic and transport. b) cultural. (I refer to my two enclosed "way" articles from l930 and l932 on the centre of Prague) Practical proposals: 1. Special issue of the Zeitschrieäte iBöhmen und Mähren" , Prague as the center of a &.Raumes (wherewith the Artint el "Prague and Homeland" from 1930 could be printed at best). 2. Great cultural event in Prague. "Prag and the Empire". Here I make myself completely available and ask for assignment. I have already prepared an evening for the SdP in the Czechoslovak period, "Prague and Germanism", which was not carried out. The frogram of this evening is strictly designed and shows from the year 950 until today the development of Prague in the German Reichs on the basis of the most culturally important German works that have been created here. (Orchestra, choirs and scenes with connecting words) The listener experiences on one evening what German broadcast means in Prague. Prague, 30.9.1940.