STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 753, sig. 109-4/504

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The Prag commander, 28.7.1943 of the security police and SD 2i17/439. Dr.W./Nes. - I - of Sta. I Reid is hmeni 31.JULI 1943 l.) Ver mer k Betr.: Ab interception of foreign stations by President Dr. Hácha. 41 Head of Section v. Popelka pointed out to Obersturmbannführer Dr. Gies during an oral consultation among others that President Drs. Hácha had been granted permission to listen to the foreign radio. According to the decree of the Reich Minister and Chief of the Imperial Chancellery dated 15.1.1942 - RK 7a - only the Reichsmarschall, the Reich minister of the Foreign Minister, the head of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, the commander-in-chief of the German Wehrmascht parts, the Imperial Minister and head of Reich Chancelleries, the German Reich Minister of the Interior, the Minister of People's Enlightenment and Propaganda and the Reich Post Minister are entitled to be heard on the basis of a leader's decision. For the rest of the Reich's ministers, the Führer's permission to listen can be granted. Within their business area, the Reichsministers entitled to listen may order a small group of people to listen to foreign channels. However, this requires the approval of the Minister for People's Enlightenment and Pröpaganda. Each person entitled to interception receives an identification card from the Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. If at the time Reichsprotektor Frhr.v. Neurath State President Dr. Háche was granted permission to interrogate foreign channels, this has become obsolete by the decree of the Reich Minister and Chief of the Imperial Chancellery. b.w. \b- 33 { /43