STATE SECRETARY FOR THE REAL PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 173, sig. 109-2/75

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21 The Imperial Protector of Prague, 17 August 1939. in Bohemia and Moravia. To a/ all groups including the Moravian Group, b/ to the Lords of Upper Land Councils in Böhmen and Moravia, c/ the Commander of the Order Police, d/ the commander of the Security Police. Subject: Appointment of a Special Representative. Process: without. The Reichspropagandaleiter of the NSDAP, as Special Representative of the Reichspropaganda-leitung in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, has appointed the leader of the Group of Cultural Political Affairs at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Mähren Pg.Dr. Frhr. v. In a letter dated 3 August 1939 to the Gauleitung of the NSDAP Sudetenland,Bayr.Ostmark,Oberdonau and Niederdonau, the Reichspropagandaleitungs (Reichspropapandaleidung) mentions the following: "The previous experiences and the relations in the protectorate area particularly stored make a special treatment necessary with regard to the use of the propaganda of the NaziAP. The head of the Reichspropaganda has ordered that all propaganda measures relating to the offer of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia be discussed before their implementation with the special commission of the imperial propaganda leadership in Prague and that its opinion be sought so as to avoid disturbances in the policy to be pursued in the Pretek- torat area." In the future, the departments of the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia will make contact with the special fund in all matters connected with the political-propagandist work of the party.This refers in particular to all public verans and actions.The Reichspropagandaleitu to a telex of August 5, 1939 question coming four questions: Gaupropagandaleit related to the appointment of the probe: carried on the letter of the Reichspr