English Translation

Prague, 9 February 1945. 15 si s Roi pa martan a IV - P To the ministry. The head of the Department of Cultural Policy in the German State Ministry of Bohemia and Moravia, 4-Sturmbannführer Wolf, was appointed on 8 August 1945. In February 1945, at 8:45 p.m., the following statement was made to the Czech chief editors and the senior officials of the press inspection service, which was previously approved in the text of /-High Group leader Minister of State Frank: 2/01t I. Officially it is announced: "In the daily newspaper "Večerní Žeké Slovo" appeared in a striking place on 6 February 1945 under the heading "K.B. Jirák conducted "Má Vlast" a review of the Czech Philharmonic concert organised by the Czech League against Bolshevism in Prague on 4 February. The review, which by no means mentions the organizer of the concert and hardly addresses the artistic value of the event, is an unprecedented anti-rich demonstration in its political interpretation of the composition of Smetana. The phrase about the "victory march of the Blanik knights who come in the most difficult moments of the people and bring him redemption and liberation from the bonds of bondage and darkness" is clearly a highly treacherous undertaking in the present time of the war, in conjunction with the following sentence "So Smetana's work fulfilled its mission during the First World War and thus we can grasp it today". On this occasion the author, Zdeněk Němec, violoncellist in the Czech Philharmonic, the responsible house censor, Major a.D. Julius Křiž, Oberaktuar- Myu y secretary of the Press Supervision Service, and the responsible cultural officer of the newspaper, Jaroslav Kohlik, were appointed by the Secrets -2 -