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33 Berlin W 8, 23. 9.42 Büra do- C'goretärs Voßstraße 4 Fernruf: Ortsverkehr 12 00 54 ernwerkehr 12 66 21 Der Chef in E... der Kanzlei des Führers 2 6. SEP. 1942 1 der NSOAP. Mr. State Secretary Karl Hermann F r a n k , P ra g/ IV, -- Czernin-Palais 1279 Dear party comrade Frank ! In the annex, I will hand you a new edition of the "Brock House Bags for Contemporary Events" and ask you to pay attention to the work. In our people, during the present war, a growing need arose for short collected works of general knowledge, which enabled the individual people to quickly inform themselves about the questions which concern him more and more as a result of the development of the empire and the expansion of the war over the whole earth. This need had to be taken into account, while at the same time giving the task of an impeccable National Socialist design of the material in order to provide a factual and as profound information as possible on the National Socialist objectives. Therefore, this problem was tackled in my department, the Party Examination Commission for the Protection of the Nazi Writtenness, and, in cooperation with the publishing house Brockhaus, a solution in the form of the existing small pocket-brock house was introduced. In the production of work it has been particularly important to involve as large a number as possible of competent bodies of the party, the Wehrmacht and the state. If the execution as a result of the work of the written guidance difficult by the war also not yet in all St. S.x11H6-65/42