English Translation

The head of the security police Berlin, 10 May 1940, and SD B.No. 3968/39g - IV A 1 c "As secret" Secret To all state police control posts 2a.d Messaged: 2715.40 To the higher ¿i- and police leaders Inspectors of security police and the SD Kripo control centre SD-Leit-Ab chnitte. Betr.: Ordinance on extraordinary broadcasting measures of 1.9.39. In the course of the processing of the operations which have been carried out so far for infringement of the Ordinance on extraordinary broadcasting measures, a gap has arisen in that it is readily possible for the persons whose radios have been collected for breach of § 1 or 2 of the aforementioned Regulation to acquire a new Apparatus, in order to then continue their anti-state activities. In order to prevent this, the Reichspostminister instructed the Reich Post Directorates throughout the Reich, at my suggestion, to contact the State Police Departments, so that the Reich's postal Directorates would be able to avoid this. the State police authorities shall inform the post offices in all cases if the authorization to participate in the radio broadcast is to be withdrawn and the re-granting of the licence is to not be granted. The state police headquarters have, as far as has not yet been done, the local competent Reichspostdirek- 5