English Translation

D ri n g e n d! telex Nnfyy ai:44-May gil d.d. 231y 4/ 4.45. 23.4.1942 To the adjutancy of the chief of the security police Berlin. with the request for immediate submission to the senior group leader. ĐNKXXXYð Subject: Meeting with the head of staff of the Reichspressechef, Reichshauptamtleiter Sännermann. Schännermann, who signed up for a lecture at the Obergruppenführer in Berlin for tomorrow Friday, appeared today despite disadvising in Prague and first visited the head of the Department of Cultural Policy and then State Secretary W-Group Leader Frank, mainly to discuss the question of the press chief at the Reichsprotektor. On behalf of 4-group leader Frank, I report the following on the course of the discussions with Schinnermann: 1.) The Secretary of State, after he had presented his known request, introduced that the Obergruppenführer had reserved the decision of the press chief, so that in the meantime neither final nor decisive can be said. Moreover, the political development initiated by the leader of the Obergruppen in the Protectorate allowed hardly any comparison with other areas and was so delicate that any double-iceness had to be strictly avoided. 2.) To my statement that a press chief next to the head -2- XII H-/42