English Translation

20 The Head of Division IV Cultural Policy Prague, 28 June 1944. W/Kreu m fv/b To the nisteramt Mr. Minister of State - Obergruppenführer Fr a n k : 29.JUNI 1944 Betr.: Company name on weapons manufactured in the Protectorate. Referring to yesterday's consultation, I am referring as a document for the discussion with Reichsmi- nister S p e r in the following to an excerpt from a Czech broadcast of the "Sender for National Liberation" from June 2, 1944: "We have again called on the workers at our home not to produce weapons for Hitler. Also now tanks of Czechoslovak production are used in Normandy. We were able to find that on all the branches of the German Czechoslovakian weapons from Prague, Brno and Pilsen are used and are used to death against our own compatriots and brothers. It is not to be excused if one of our people speaks out that he is forced to work under pressure. If the Germans continue to have the opportunity to produce weapons in our country, the Allied Air Force will attack these production sites. Therefore, sabotage the production of tanks, cannons, airplanes, MGs and rifles. Leave your places of work and join the guerrillas and increase the fight against our common enemy". Messages of this kind have been growing strikingly lately and are undoubtedly jeopardizing the calm course of war production in the Protectorate. The question arises as to whether it would not be appropriate, provided that the hostile claim is entirely correct, to omit the name of the manufacturing company on weapons manufactured in the Protectorate.