STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2584, sig. 109-12/232

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X 2 would be - apart from the effect in the Protectorate itself - of extraordinary political significance for the rest of the occupied territories in the West and of strong propagandistic effects in Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and France. I know the foreign countries and the above-mentioned countries very well, especially the development since the war in the Occupied Territories as well as the views and concerns in the not yet occupied Europe! An essay from Jhrer Feder, which thus represents one of the central problems of the empire in the new Europe, would be regarded as absolutely guiding. His effect would be very positive, as I know from my own precise knowledge of the situation that many times in the occupied western regions is not so much a resistance to the leadership of the Reich, but rather an animosity about the very extensive German bureaucratic apparatus." Group leader Frank initially has concerns about making a contribution in turn, and still has concerns to build the contribution, if it were to be written, on the thoughts recorded by Mrs Wiedeman. Jch would be grateful if you could make the decision of 4-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, whether group leader Prank will contribute a contribution and which topic is to be dealt with, if necessary. He il Hitler! Jhr fis. 4-Otersturmbannfänger.