THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 144, sig. 109-2/46

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- 11- 12 here is not interested in the speech and the speaker, but in the basic experience. f) Every situation report on a basic question must be conclusive, i.e. the general values and conclusions contained therein must be substantiated in the section itself. The reader must be convinced by reference to evidence, not by general assertions. In particular, it should be avoided that the report reflects a purely personal view; the reporting period has been extended eight days so that the workers have time to produce really well documented and sound reports. If there is only one single example, this can still be of value to the RSHA, which may receive an example of the same problem from many sections, but it would be wrong to generalise one example in the section because of this. g) The management report must be different from a newspaper report. A newspaper report is an event report and contains the description of a progress, but not the SD-like important aspects such as mood effects, influence of the crisis, experiences for the future order, implementation of the NS programme, etc. Similarly, the reports should not be published in the form of a journal in which abstract legal questions and the personal opinion of the author are set out; the impact of legal and administrative procedures should be presented in a concrete manner in the regional context. (h) The reports must be up-to-date, i.e. they must be accompanied by reports from the most recent times. In the planning of the reports, care must be taken to ensure that the investigations are directed precisely at the effects of legal and administrative measures of the last time. Current events, such as "Day of the German Police", "Opinion of the legal guardians