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Office of the Secretary of State bein Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. be crif t Eing.: 13. JAN. 1940 e h e i m ! Tgb. Nr.: Der Oberkommandshebe Berlin, den ito Dezeiggg N des Heer's Nr.6630/39 PA (2) Ta $.d.d The hostile propaganda and also the neutral press .73/1.40. In the last years the subject of the opposition between the Führer, the Party and the Wehrmacht (especially the Army) has taken up again to a large extent. Most of these publications take on alleged manifestations of German offensives. The internal and extra-political damage to seler Gerdehee is great. Inside, unwarranted suspicion receives food, outside, the German leadership does not appear as united and firmly closed as it is ever necessary in war more than in peace, I know that these rumors of unfriendly foreign countries, which also includes a large part of the press of neutral states, are invented in the most sly form. Usually the messages carry the stamp of the forgery already by the foolish nature of the content on the forehead. I am not sure, however, if not misunderstood conversations in supposedly familiar circles arrive on detours to personalities, who then carry the now mostly still disfigured manifestations abroad.Every officer must do his utmost, such rumors under no circumstances give any food zú. The often observed need for communication, the addiction to know about things and contexts with which the officer has nothing to do with the service, and then to carry this knowledge further under the seal of discretion must ever--the individual in himself fight again, difficulties which the war inevitably brings to every field of work, must be overcome by the performance of the personality, if necessary, superiors presented; however, they must not be told broad cracks, possibly out of the army. To the outside - and this already begins in the own family - there is only one lamentation: the firm excess of the victory of the German weapons and complete gloomyness about the path leading to this goal. gez.: von Brauchitsch T The Wehrmacht authorized to go to Prague, the 10.1.1940 Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia Abbot I c No. 574/39. 4716/39_he Prior order of the Ob.d.H. must be made known to all officers. For the Wehrmacht authorized officer the chief of staff 111 TrC4 Colonel iab G distributor : B