English Translation

Py hansing $o Wo/Mr E a Prague, 5 February 1940.80 /.2513.40 Note. On the note by 4-group leader Frank about the lack of involvement of the Cultural Policy Group in the KaF events, the following is noted: 1.) The NS community "Power through Joy" is part of the German working front in KdF local groups, which are under the responsibility of a full-time KdB district administrator in every circle of the NSDAP. In Prague, this is Dr. Herbert Hiebsch. 2.) After the announcement of the Dr.Preissler, district administrator of the DAF in Prague, the generous expansion of KdF planned in the Protectorate by the war was quite stalled, so Kd F was forced to refrain from major tasks and to limit itself, with the exception of some concerts, to purely folk events (bunt evenings, dance events, etc.). The main task of the KaF is at present the organisation of events for the Wehrmacht and for wounded persons in the hospitals. This task should essentially be in line with that of the rest of the Reich. 3.) The symptomatic involvement of the Wehrenmacht in a KdF event, taken up by group leader Frank, is not an isolated case. Rather, it is known from daily reports of the SD departments that Kar events in the province are carried by the Wehrmacht quite substantially. The predominance of the influence of the Wermacht seems also due to a certain lack of initiative of the party divisions, as well as the units of the police and armed 44. \C$