English Translation

Copy Xh National Socialist German Workers' Party Reichsleitung Der Reichleiter Berlin W 35, 17 April 1942 für die Presse der NSDAP. Graf-Spee-Straße 20 Verwaltungsamt Fernsprecher 25 90 31 Der Stableiter Abt. 156/0 Volk- und Reich-Verlag G.m.b.H. Verlagsleichung P rag XII Schwerinstraße 3 Betr.: Prager Hochschul-Blätter. I have not yet responded to my letter of 2.3.42, by which I asked you to comment on my letter from l4.42, which you referred to, and which was not yet available here at the time of the drafting of a letter from 2.3.41. On this statement the Reichspressekammer gave the Lord Reich Protector a representation of the legal situation, as it was created by the introduction of the orders of the Reichskulturkammer in the Protectorate. The Reichspressekammer has here to state that it was not necessary to subsequently obtain the consent of the Reichsprotektor for the entry into force of the order on the integration of publishing houses of periodical printing works, publishing plans, etc. Article 6 of the Ordinance on the introduction of the Reichskulturkammerlegung in Bohemia and Moravia stipulates that the orders issued pursuant to § 25 of the first Ordinierung zur Verführung des ReichsKulturskammergesetz shall enter into force with effect from 10.2.4l, unless otherwise determined by the Presidents of the independent chambers in agreement with the Reich's Protector. The Reichspressekammer has further stated that, in the sense of the provision cited, there is neither a requirement nor an order and that there is therefore no doubt that the transformation of the above-mentioned