STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 352, sig. 109-4/97

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Personally! Secret! 23 June 1939. The State Secretary. St.S. No. 29/39. XVIII/72/39/B1/Kg. To the Gauleiter of the Bavarian Ostmark Pg.Wächter 8 Bayreuth,Maxstr.2. Betr.: Gestaltung von Talken und Reden im Protektoratgebiet. Procedure: ohne. I urge that, in order to maintain a single political line, speeches and speeches that you intend to make in the Protectorate, they be voted on to the political line which the Reichsprotector intends to take against the protectorate government at the present time. I ask that this should not be regarded as a kind of mistrust or patronage, rather as an expression of the wish in the interests of the great German people that there should be clarity and agreement between the view of the party and the state - that is, the department of the Reichsprotektor - in the assessment of the political problems and the political objective. I would consider it expedient, among other things, if the texts of the speeches and speeches were first sent to me for information. If, within 4 days of the task of the procedure, no answer was received at the post office, I would like to imply that the formulation of the addresses and speeches should be addressed as thought-free from the point of view of Mr Reichsprotektor. Should a different regulation be proposed in the matter, which leads to the same result as the above regulation, I would be grateful for the clarification of the corresponding opinion. Heil Hitler! Ll.S.-1V-B-8-139.