STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23

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40 A 14 "One of these ways, the lying hostile radio propaganda, has become practically impossible due to the hard clear energy of the Reich's direction. As the soldier unconditionally follows the command of the superior, the National Socialist, Soldatian German people also knows that it has to obey the orders of his leadership even more in the war. And just as a German soldier will never refuse an order, so will our people, whose sons these soldiers are, be guided by the prohibition of interception of the enemy's lies radio. Thus, the will of the hostile lie propaganda remains only the one way to spread false news through leaflets. Although most of these mo-torized lie agents may also be shot down by our outstanding air weapon, it can of course still be possible here and there individual enemy aircraft to load their paper load from the highest altitude above German territory. That, according to England, would have to be enough. Because one expects there with a human quality, which now without question exists, the German communication need. There has found some in and for itself absolutely benevolent German such a leaflet. He did not deliver it to the police, but took it away as a war memory. Now he shows it to a friend who reads it and occasionally tells it to another third. The all too human need for sensation, the urge for personal expression come to be added as new allies of England, and now what one has wanted in London arises: the rumor!.. Negligent rumors are therefore more common among high and national traitors. A people who have won must proceed against them with all recklessness, but one must not overestimate the effect of this counter-propaganda. A rapporteur is emphatically skeptical. Berlin: We reported some time ago that the population. The more the political tension grew, the more the foreign channels listened. In order to obtain reliable information, it was clear from the discussions of the people about the political situation that this took place on a large scale. However, with the outbreak of the war and the adoption of the regulation against listening to the broadcaster from the country, a fundamental change has occurred here. that one listens to these transmitters to a large extent