STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2588, sig. 109-12/236

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2.2 National Socialist German Workers' Party Reichsleitung Der Reichsführer Payments only on bank account: for the press of the NSDAP. Dresdner Bank, Dep.-Kasse 38, Konto 9209, Berlin W 62,Lützow- Verwaltungsamt platz 1 or by bank check da Der Stabsleiter BERLIN W35,22 May1942. 110/Kr. Graf-Spee-Straße 20 Abt.... Speakers 25 90 31 NO Herm Office of the State Fekeetües at the Reichsprotektor Oberregierungsrat Dr. G i s in Bohemia and mähren. EPS Eing. 27. MA11942 e Prag 9W L V 1620 Betr.: Böhnisch-Kamnitzer Papierfabriken AG., Böhmisch-Kamitz. S Dear party comrade Dr. Gies! Verlagsleiter Pg. Langhans informed me of the order of 5.5.1942 (No. II/1/Jd-4472/42), according to which the abovementioned paper mill was otherwise decided and that the application for the admission of the Prague public limited company to the paper industry could no longer be met. Having kindly declared yourself willing to intervene again in the matter, I would like to briefly address the reasons for the takeover of the Böhmisch-Kamnitzer Papierfabrik by a society close to the Reich leader for the press: the extraordinary importance of the paper supply of the press (newspapers and magazines), whose war-decisive meaning is recognized, has increased the interest of the Reich head for the media in securing an immediate influence on production by taking over some paper factories or by participating in them. The aim is not to take paper production into its own hands, but to take an interest in 2 - 3 appropriate factories, and to be able to properly overlook their possibilities in close connection with the production and also to influence the production of Se'a in S.F86-28/42 C/04/60