English Translation

168 -2- captain Dr. Meyer, Vienna, Lord Mayor Judex, Brno, announced: "The question of the possession of cinema concessions by the municipalities has been decided by Führer in a sense favourable to the communities, so that now, contrary to the previous regulation of the Reichsprotektor, the municipalities of Kinos may direct them in their own direction." In accordance with the Reich's Film Chamber, the Reich Protector represents the point of view that the cinemas confiscated in the Protectorate must be kept ready for war victims and should not be run in municipal administration. On the 15th of July it was noted in the Reich's Ministry of Propaganda that the leader did not take such a decision and that the matter was not postponed as a matter of war importance. 4.) Kreispropagandaleiter Kopschiwa in Brno explained to the Ufa that, in the absence of a German business leader, whom the party had not proposed despite a request, a Czech managing director was appointed for the UFA cinema, that he would forbid the Brno Germans from visiting the cinema and that the interruption of the operation by the SA was to be expected if not a German managing director were to be employed. 5.) On the occasion of a visit by the head of my department of state youth and heads of the command office of Bohemia and Moravia of the Reich Youth Guide, District Leader Knoop, to the Gauleiter Jury in Vienna on 29 May, Knoop reported to the Gauleiter about the work at the board of trustees for youth education in Bohemia and Mähren. Gauleiter Jury noted that "the objectives pursued by the Reichsprotektor with the establishment of the Board of Trustees and the work of the board of trustees are politically completely deviating