STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1040, sig. 109-4/794

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English Translation

Note: The letter of the President of the Court of Auditors of the German Reich dated 20 June 1942 affects the following Pragues: a) the setting up of a branch office of the Office of Accounts for the administration of the Reiohs own in the territory of the Pro= tektorat in Prague, b) the filling of the head of the Supreme Audit= control authority of the Protectorate, c) the installation of the director of this office in the authority= the apparatus of the Imperial Protector. (a) The Court of Auditors is currently examining the administration of the Reich in the Protectorate from its headquarters in Potsdam.In the other important administrative centres of the German Reichsgebiet, the Court of Auditor has set up a branch office to carry out the audit from these external atlass (Wäen,Munich, etc.). The audit activity of the Court of Auditors would therefore be able to take account, in particular, of the political demands of this area, in addition to the purely arithmetical examination, even if, in Prague, for the territory of the Protectorate, a branch office would be set up which would examine the rich's administration from here. The commander of the Security Police and the SD also took this position in his opinion of 12 June 1942. (b) The ever-growing division between the Reichs=verwaltung and the Protectorate administration requires zin= gend that the audit activities for the two administrations are also mutually aligned. In the course of the two-way examination work, the command = had the security police and the SD in its above-mentioned expert report as urgently necessary.This he=requireis is best taken into account by the fact that the