English Translation

128 demands that we ourselves, as party leaders, have grown into a spirit of struggle and a political passion for many years, which need to be taken into account in dealing with such drastic and highly political measures as the short wave action. I am only referring to the fact that in order to achieve the result that is recognized as necessary in the teaching and orientation of these people, a certain minimum of time is required and the implementation of such an action is carried out in a form that leaves any accompanying symptoms humiliating to the end effect. I now announce how I have been involved in the action so far: On March 8, 1943, I took the first announcement of the action from the propaganda report of my district propaganda leader of the same day, which for the first time made me aware that such an action was planned, and that it was started. The passage in this report read: "A decree carried out by local radio dealers in German communities on the following measures to prevent the interception of enemy stations has produced legitimate bitterness among the people. Measures will then be taken throughout the Protectorate to make the short-wave part of all radios operating on the market impossible to use. It doesn't matter whether the device belongs to a German, a Czech or a foreigner." So there was already something going on that day, of which the party had not received any knowledge before and what had already been atmospheric in the population - had worked. my responsible staff, closely followed up the matter in order to obtain the necessary information from the responsible staff. My propaganda leader turned to the party liaison office on my behalf and received the information that an action was planned on which the circuit leaders on the Wge will still receive the corresponding instructions by their Gauleitungen. On l3.3. I then, also from the Propa-Gandaleiter, received a memo of information which he had received from Pg.Wánjek from the cartel of radio retailers in Bohemia and Moravia, because the propaganda director had become aware that Pg Wanjek had been called to Prague on several occasions in this matter.