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Secret Prague, 24 March 1941. 20 Group Press e a 25 To the Head of Division IV, Ministerial Councillor Dr. Frhr of G r eg o r y Czernin-Palais. Subject: Sending of Tass news material to the magazine of the Czech government force. C oY oomw Letter of the Wehrmacht authorised representative, group e.g.V., -Az.Ma./Pr. No. 2ol6/4o off.- of 3 December 1941. 1940, as well as supalt letter of the Wehrmacht authorised representative, group e.g.V., -Az.Ma./Pr. No. 2ol6/4o off. 2 Áng.- of 25.1.1941 and note of the file of St.S. VIII D -2b of 4.2.194l. Attached I submit the two 3/n letters of the authorized Wehrmascht, as described above, together with the written text of the superior government councillor Dr. Gies and the related opinion of the SD section of the Prague -E VA 623 of 25.1.1941. I fully agree with the opinion and, in addition, note that from October 3rd, 1939, I set the SD chapter, that the then alconsulate of the USSR. Konrad sends the unpolitical Tass-messages with the ung. Shortly before, the Office of the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia had requested that any press releases requested were not to be given directly to the newspapers, but rather to be directed by the representative of the Foreign Office, who himself was willing to send the Press Group to the Reich's Protector. By letter dated 29 March 1994, I also informed the representative of the Federal Foreign Office that the Press Advisory Board of the Consulate General of the UdSsR. Tass directly addressed the newspapers and asked that the consulate general at issue, if any, should request that all of them also comment on the