GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 989, sig. 110-9/5 (damaged)

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46 Division Justice Prague, 29 March 1944 II - 164/44 g # Secret Original //-Obergruppenführer Minister of State Frank submitted by order. I propose to say something like this at the entrance to your speech: "I strongly point out that my executions of secret Reich cases are of the most serious political importance and therefore must be regarded as a state secret within the meaning of § 88 of the Reich Criminal Code. Your transfer to other persons or use of content would be punished as a state treason with death or imprisonment. I urge you not to take this hint as a mere formal warning, but at the same time as an appeal to our common commitment to leaders and empires. I can only speak openly to you, my party members, about these things that are touching my old comrades, only when there is really no syllable coming out of this room here for you have to vouch for me and confirm this by letter under the written record. I hardly need to stress that no-tizes are inconvenient." The minutes, of which an official of the local state police will be assigned to an official, should be annexed to the text of the speech together with the above instruction. Participants must be listed and must sign. The minutes must be described as domestic matters and treated accordingly. to St. M. \ B-4/44g 132[4g