English Translation

59. As you told me, you want to announce the letters to Hungary and Slovakia by a note from the Foreign Office to the governments of these two states. Reichsminister Dr. Goebbels, with your permission for personal information, received a copy of the Beneš letter. Unfortunately, the Reichspropaganda Ministry has so far in no way taken any position on this propaganda matter which seems to me to be important and has also left the Prague rally on this side unexploited. I would be grateful if you would let me know whether you, Reichsführer, intend to exert influence on your own initiative during the propaganda mini- stration because of the further evaluation of the letter. In the press and on the radio of the Protectorate, on the basis of the passages in the letter I have already announced, I have heard an action in the form of newspaper articles and cartoons as well as radio radio plays, which express the "voice of the Czech faithful to his homeland". If the Reichspropaganda for Germany and abroad is to continue to do so, this would have to be done immediately. It could be pointed out that the London radio station (Tsohechische Sendung) confirmed the authenticity of the letter with the following statement on 27 February, 18:45 in the evening: "We do not know whether that letter is genuine, but what we learned was merely a communication about the difficulties with which Beneš had to contend in carrying out his political action. But the president himself spoke openly about this to his people, of whom he does not seek to hide the least." Until your decision has been made, I see from the Protectorate my possibilities for propagandistic evaluation with the current actions as exhausted. Heil Hitler! Always your 2.) On the process.