Report on radio broadcasts, including those by Catholics and supporters of Jews

Dated 31st December, 1945. .
STATUTORY DECLARATION by Mrs. Olga Abrahams. I, 2 3 4
I, OLGA ABRAHAMS, of Bush House, Aldwych in the County of Westminister, married woman, solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:
1. I am and have for some time been employed by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office of Bush House, Aldwych, aforesaid.
2. On the nineteenth day of July 1945 I caused a copy (Reference No. P.I.D. Document Section A.10) to be made of extracts from the German file entitled "SD Hauptamt Abteilung Rundfunk."
3. The copy of the said extracts which is annexed hereto and marked A is a true copy.
4. The said file was obtained on loan from the Military Intelligence Research Section of the War Office, 40 Hyde Park Gate in the County of London in July 1945 and was returned to them in the same month.
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1 make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835.
Dated this thirty first day of December 1945.
. [signed] OLGA ABRAHAMS
Before me: [signed] S. H. PITT
Commissioner for Oaths.
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The most serious objections exist here against Glasmeier, which have already been stated in a report to RFSS. His appointment to the position of General Manager would make the chaos in the broadcasting even worse. A failure of Glasmeier (Handwritten note: Letter to be addressed to RFSS when such failure has materialized), which must be expected as absolutely certain, would amount to a serious encroachment upon the reputation of the SS.
[signed] SIGISMUND
SS—Scharf uehrer
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NOTE FOR FILES
Subject: General Manager of the German Broadcasting.
On 27 February 1937 Reg. Rat Weinbrenner was asked whether anything is known to him with respect to the planned office of General Manager of the German Broadcasting.
Weinbrenner made the following statement:
The probability that a General Manager would be named is very great. For approximately 14 days all the work of the department handling broadcasting in the Propaganda Ministry is practically at a standstill, which fact is clearly indicative of changes which are under way.
However, he stated, it is almost impossible to determine whom the Minister would name General Manager, since Dr. Goebbels reaches most of the important decisions only by agreement with Under-Secretary Funk. In most instances the fact is that the department handling the matter makes suggestions, but that it
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thereupon does not hear anything for a considerable time as to the status of the matter until some day all of a sudden a change would be made by a direct order of the Minister and everybody would be of the opinion that the Minister alone handled the matter.
It was not known to Weinbrenner that Stueber and Glasmeier had been ordered to see Under-Secretary Funk. He, therefore, did not know anything as to the result of these conversations. In conclusion, it should be stated that information as to the appointment of a General Manager most probably can here be obtained only when Dr. Goebbels has already reached a decision and there are no longer any possibilities to express any doubts or to submit proposals to the RFSS.
(Signed) Sigismund
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NOTE FOR THE FILES
Subject: General Manager of the German Broadcasting.
Reg. Rat Weinbrenner, Propaganda Ministry, advises that on
1.2.37 Glasmeier already had the second interview with Undersecretary Funk. It is also stated that he negotiated with Dr. Goebbels during the latter's stay in Cologne.
Glasmeier thus seems to be considered increasingly seriously as a candidate for the possible position of a General Manager.
(Signed) Sigismund
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