English Translation

1a The operational intentions and measures of national defence must therefore not be discussed among professional comrades in friends or family circles, let alone in the public sphere. This is particularly true for civil servants and employees of the Supreme Reich authorities, which is why, because of their membership in wet-bed services, the statement is all too easily formed, and the statement comes from someone "who needs to know" 9 Such statements, as it were, guaranteed by the position of civil servants or employees, run much faster, according to experience, than it usually happens." I may ask you to arrange the necessary for your business. Dr. Lammers The Imperial Protector Prague,the 20th May 1942 in Böhnen and Moravian I W-357 g An a) Abt,I - IV and central administration in each case personal b) all group address c) the Oberlandraten with the addition O.V.i.A. the personal secretariat of the Obergruppenführer to the office of the Secretary of State copy I send to the Federal Republic of Germany for information, as a result of the marginal conditions in the Bohemian-Moravian area, the strictest observance of this instruction is the duty of every official employee,I ask that this decree be made known to the official and the employee. Ordered : E certified, Cohnnister 190 employees 51722