Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 986, sig. 110-9/2 (damaged)

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- 15 - 72 On the positive side, it was precisely at the date of 15.3.1944, for which the enemy radio had spent in the strongest form insurrection, that foreigners present in the Protectorate were able to convince themselves of the actual calm and order and the correctness of German propaganda. Enemy radio has therefore also strongly agitated against the visit of foreign journalists to Prague by trying to present the invitation of foreigners to the Protectorate as a weakness of the empire at the present time, which is now striving for a good reputation among the neutrals and abroad. Moreover, it was claimed that the foreigners were guarded day and night by Gestapo officials and that no Czech was allowed to speak freely with them. At the end of the Prague programme, a brochure "Five Years of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" compiled specifically for this purpose by the Orbis publishing house Prague was presented to the foreign journalists on behalf of the German Minister of State. F.d.R.D.A.: Schsisning CeNOC