English Translation

The head of the security police 15 February 1940 and the SD - and Dolizeiführer . IV/A 1 b - No. 5889/38g in Bohemia and Moravia. 3-796.M0.40140 gf. entrance on: 2 1. 1I. 1940 fnlg.: 2 Führer To the staff f. Fibt. Beacb. Gauleiter of the MSDAP Higher and police leader Commanders of the Security Police 7 and SD in Prague and Krakow Inspectors of security police 5.d.d and the SD 413.40 Border inspectors I, II and III Head of Office II, III and VI of the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt - or representatives in office - Subject: Marxist mood= and economic reports on Germany. Annex: 2 attached photocopies. Since the beginning of the war, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sopade) has published two editions of its informational publication "Deutschlandberichte" and, as before, has sent them in a limited number of copies to top officials of emigration, to exposed circles of the international Marxist movement and to certain foreign correspondents. For a distribution in the Reich, this propaganda material is neither restricted, nor has one been established so far. Concerning the request for knowledge, I send an extract from the confidentially acquired circles, which deals with the political and economic conditions in the Empire. The extent and number of individual reports contained therein, as a result of the war situation and the related conversion of the illegal reporting apparatus, are much smaller than in the pre-war period, but the statements in part provide an interesting insight into how the Marxists judge the internal front. 2C employees.