STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2572, sig. 109-12/220

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22 - 2 - was, This has proven itself so far excellently, and also in the future cannot therefore be dispensed with. The magazine is neither content nor in the way of its dissemination, for example, within German landscape or homeland journals comparable. It is rather a war-political instrument in the most actual sense. Just a few figures: 20,000 of the 30,000 copies go to Czech recipients. According to our investigation, this means a quarter of a million attentive readers in a decisive Czech layer. From the rest of the edition only about 800 go to the Old Kingdom, because there was obviously no promotion at all. "Böhmen und Mühren" is thus a magazine exclusively for the implementation of the Reichsgedanken in Bohemia and Moravia. So, if we have decided to switch the magazine to the paper question, then in a unique action, which takes into account the general paper requirements on the one hand and the special political tasks on the other hand equally. In any case, this change must not appear to the Czech people and their leaders as a scourge right now, and I would ask you, in this sense, to submit the reduction measures communicated above to the leader.