STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1719, sig. 109-4/1474 Page 4 · 4 of 32
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1719, sig. 109-4/1474
English Translation
- page 2 - various letters, which in a sense demanded the publication of this book "stürmisch" . Then I requested an expert report from the children's books from the Reich Youth Guide. I attach the expert report in Annex l) to the paper. This expert report confirms our concerns. Käte Kamossa has described her own childhood in it very subjectively and one-layered, in a sense as a one-child-shit-sale. In this lie beside all the other my main consideration. A children's book must now suggestively lead to those goals which we want to achieve. We have informed of this report as well as of our final opinion Käte Kathe Kamossa. On June 16, she wrote to us the letter, which was enclosed in a copy of Annex 2), which could not change my view of the manuscript, on the contrary, which showed me how individualist and liberalist the author thinks about very important points of artistic work. I had to stick to the already pronounced rejection. Miss Kamossa feels, as it is easy for some who once did or wrote something, but to new creations do not have the inner power or talent, misunderstood, and disadvantageous. 3. As far as Miss Kamossa is concerned, as we happened to know, she turned to the Reich Protector for financial support and received two times more money from him.