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St.M. IV P - 2/44 g. 0146 Prague, 10 January 1944. 1945 M Geheim -Teas,neb Lusfda mwe weu nelskolagnulmere nefonoe nedoatveb sih dol ebtew onnte meneih nl .nognales -e FSt eib elwon snegro br nolfedadanetd nebroedod ne Anniteev metil bnn neaa nl elfedegnbntdzev # group leader and lieutenant-general of the police Winkelmann, Berlin, toH Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei. 1MATT.03 -OPOLAEDbeULOL Dear comrade Winkelman ! As far as propaganda is concerned, I reply to your telex from 7.1.d.Js. - Sign No. 776 that the action in Bohemia and Moravia cannot be raised in the form you have communicated. Only 250,000 Germans face the 7 million Czechs in this area. The Czechs would be encouraged by the action according to their mentality; to listen to the slogans of enemy propaganda or even to the hostile intelligence service. They would at the same time see in the action an evidence of the strength of the opposing activity, since it was necessary for the German leadership to turn to the public with such comprehensive measures. In view of this situation and the Czechs' lack of preparedness from the outset to be involved in such an action, I must refrain from carrying it out in Bohemia and Moravia on the imperial scale.