English Translation

Division IV Prague, January 5, 1943. 102 Head of the Press Group IV/3 Office of the Salsfectetürs at the Feosprothtoe in Bohemia and Moravia. To Eing.: - 7th JAN. 1943 Ss-Obersturmbannführer. Ministerial Councillor Dr. Gie Czernin-Palais. Subject: Format for special editions of the German Zeitun- gen in Böhmen and Mähren. Here: Special edition of the "Neuen Tag". With reference to your note of 12 January 1943. November 1942 /Anlage/ informs me that according to a central instruction of the President of the Reichspressekammer under participation of the Imperial Association of German Newspaper Publishers and the Reich Press Chief in the future, only half-format of the otherwise usual newspaper format may be used for special expenditures which do not exceed a certain maximum extent, whereby it was left to the local press officers of the imperial propaganda offices, whether transverse or longitudinal format is chosen. In the present case, I would ask that no particular weight be attached to the reference by Pg. Wannenmacher, who is justified from an aesthetic point of view, since this is an emergency measure which is based on. The paper situation in Bohemia and Moravia is still far more silent than in the rest of the Reich, so that I intend to stick to the Reich regulation in all German newspapers in Bohemia or Moravia and to allow only the half format for special editions. In doing so, I believe that the pattern drawn with I should prefer landscape format to longitudinal format. Occasional return of the process and consent is requested. aa XH-28