A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2725, sig. 109-14/27

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92 4h-Gruf. 6 May 1943. Namn bicblu st.S.192/157/43. Bwiuhnfid ru to bit won fhng wa frub in Mise luyligrapil, merni s witer dilluy ly wi An Herrn . Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Dr.Jury, Wien I, lya Herrengasse ll. Dear Jury ! On your letter of 27.4.d.Js. - Sign by Dr. J/K/Ma I would like to reply to you the following: I did not send a judicial warning to circle leader Folta, but only a personal warning, The Duroh leadership of the regulation of the Reich Protector - in full agreement with you and the participating Gauleiter - about shortwave reception devices from lo.3.d.Js. The task of the German police is to monitor and prevent interference. In cases of direct infringement, their investigative activities will normally have the aim of criminal proceedings; but also against interference of a different kind - especially if the public opinion is negatively influenced - the police have the right means at their disposal. I am therefore justified both in terms of wartime and warning as a higher 4 and police leader on the basis of the institutional authority given by the leader of the security police. In my capacity as Commissioner of the Reichskommissar for the consolidation of German peoples, I have a right of instruction which not only gives positive orders, but also states of the