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Division IV Prague, 16 November 1942. Head of the Press Group IV/3-1212 RPR-2,6/43 DEGROTE ENN BARtbTSEI Gfreng. TRED PONSEJO An BolLoiXesk rs Sse SS-Obersturmbannführer, E NS Ministerial Councillor Dr. G i e s Czernin-Palais. NC By the hand IV. of the Head of Division SS-Sturmbannnführers Wolf. On November 13, 1942, I informed Interpress about the following: On the basis of the letter of 13 June 1942 from Interpress to the group leader, I had contacted the then deputy head of the German Press Division in the press department of the Reich government Fischer orally. In this conversation I expressed to Mr Fischer concerns about the leaving of the article "Reichpolitik in Böhmen und Mähren" from the "Volkischer Beobachter" from June, because Interpress is so far only known to the written lines of Bohemia and Moravia as an agency for the dissemination of political carricatures. /Interpress has been supplying the Protectorate's newspapers through the Centropress agency for several years with political cartoons/. I had taken the view that for this reason it does not seem appropriate to have the article of the group leader circulated by Interpress. Mr Fischer spontaneously agreed with me completely and asked me to leave him to deal with this matter himself, since he wanted to advise the director of the agency Interpress, Dr. Timm orally not to do so. As Mr Fischer informed me on the occasion of my official stay in Berlin at the lo. and ll. d.Mts., he has St. 1x-2b/42