English Translation

Division IV Prague, 6 January 1943. Head of the Press Group IV/3 NO nte bnafnetobue dmeebgengcorgadoiod 28 popope fo'dotltneman aitonsenerd febiel ets -U S An gjn .Baia tad Ss-Obersturmbannführer,oven onie net Ministerial Councillor Dr. G i e s Bobrew 1010A8 Czernin-Palais. With reference to your note St.S.XII A-6/4l of January 4, 1943, I hand over copies of the two press notes concerning the distribution of the Adalbert Stifter Prize, which is for the Landesdienst Böhmen-Mähren and Landesdienst Sudetengau / these two equals/ and for DNB. Berlin for the rest of the Reich's press. Despite urgent requests, the news was not yet issued by the magazine press and magazine press department. According to your suggestion, I had asked the SD. about the individual award winners whether there were any objections to one or the other. The result was as follows: The Reichsssicherheitshauptamt informed that Heinrich Bach-mann, who received the first prize of the narrator's prizes, had strong Catholic ties to the present day. Bachmann recently joined the Catholic Herder publishing house in Freiburg i/Br. This writer was a former editor of the Germania. In earlier years Bachmann belonged to the Catholic Quickborn movement. Bachmann is still active in the Catholic sense. The winner of the 2nd Archal Prize, Dr. Josef Schneider, Reichenbaq, is divided by the SD section Reichenberg as follows: Schneider comes from poor conditions and has had to earn his support himself as a student. He was a member of the Catholic-student organization Staffelstein and was promoted by Höller to the present day. Through the promotion he came to the cultural office of the SDP.