THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1174, sig. 110-11/112

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14 Security service of the Reichsführer-44 Prag-Bubentsch, 8.2.1945 SD section Prague Sachsenweg telex 60141, 77841, Czernin 3911-19 III C - SA 246/l - Schlg/Schg. inlste-amt It asked me, Diajas Geicfeseithon den Beganlank bel melasa Seceiben PO - 8. FEB. 1945 mnyugees 1.) Toa Minister of State K.H. F r a n k Prag 2.) To the g102 Head of the Department of Cultural Policy at the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Mghren 4-Sturmbannführer W o l f Prag Betr.: Article "K.B. Jirák řidil 'Mou vlast'" in the "Večerní České Slovo" from 6.2.1945. Introduction: Without the article published on 6. 2. 1945 in the Večerní České Slovo" has attracted great attention in the Czech public. The music of Smetana's work had a direct effect in its kind. The review was regarded as an excellent parallel to the cultural-national struggle at the end of the First World War. The allusion to the present conditions had been excellently successful. In public, the article was seen as a sign that, in view of the new conditions, the principal author Werner turned away from the activist line. Zdeněk Nemec, the author of the article, stated during his interrogation that he had written the article against Bolshevism. He blames the head of the cultural section Kohlik, who had deleted the subtitle of the article "For the League against Bolshevism". Kohlik is known that he never reads the things presented to him. Supposedly, the mother or sister of Kohlik KZ prisoner is supposed to be. Main author Werner, who admits almost never the sport and culture section to above- ad m 1578/48/160 $X1-10 a/45