STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1902, sig. 109-5/130

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Gell mf 132 y-Oberführer Dr. B e r t s c h Prague, 16 February 1943. ly 1. I. Note: Mr. State Secretary received today the Protectorate= government. Because of illness Dr.Kalfus was not present. He explained that even in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, as well as in the rest of the Reich and almost all of Europe, all the forces capable of action in the Jnteres= se must now be brought into a war-important activity. The task of the government is to work unreservedly and to awaken the necessary psycho= logical understanding among the Czech population for. The time and power that the government would have had to use for the frontline deployment of the governmental force was to switch to the implementation of these labor measures=. Large gatherings And comprehensive Mkn propaganda measures are not to be expected in this context = plnf anten ufpofenln Troptgandanofue The Secretary of State declares in this connection he has nothing to object if in the pursuit of these measures there would be ministerial meetings on it=. They are technically bound to the person of the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour, what the pro= pagandist side approaches, to the individual of the -Sturm= bannführer Dr. Wolf. He reserves the last disposal on all these questions himself. He commissioned the propaganda= minister Moravec to draft a