English Translation

eheim Group Press Prague, 24 March 1941. To the Head of Division IV Ministerial Council Dr. Frhr. von G r eg o r y Czernin-Palais. I Subject: Sending of Tass news material to the magazine of the Czech government force. Letter of the Wehrmacht authorised representative, group e.g.V., -Az.Ma./Pr. No. 2ol6/4o off.- of 3 December 1941. 1940, as well as supfalt letter of the Wehrmacht authorized, group e.g.V., -Az.Ma./Pr. No. 2ol6/4o off. 2 Ang.- of 25.1.1941 and note of the file St.S. VIII D -2b of 4.2.1941. Attached I submit the two letters of the authorized Wehrmascht referred to above together with the additional eight annexes, and the above letter of upper government councillor Dr. Gies and the corresponding opinion of the SD-Leitspart Prague -E VA 623 of 25.1.1941. I agree fully with the opinion of SD-leitssection and note. In addition, that I have already written from 3o. In October l939, he informed the SD editorial that the then Press Advisory Board of the UassR's Generel Consulate, Konrad, was sending directly unpolitical Tass news to the newspapers with a request for publication. Shortly before, the consular representatives in Prague had been requested by the representative of the Federal Foreign Office to the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, if necessary. By letter of 29 March 1994 I also informed the representative of the Federal Foreign Office that the press advisory board of the Consulate General of the UassR had been informed that it would not be able to give press releases directly to the newspapers, but rather to direct the representatives of the Foreign Office, who were willing to send the press to the Reichsprotector. Tass-Nachrichten directly addressed to the Zeițungen and asked that the Consulate General, if any, request that all press releases requested by him be sent via the representative of the Foreign Office.