English Translation

Department ag, ien 5.July 1943 Remembrance: Visit to ORR.Dr.iebe, East Ministry. Note. In the ReichskomissariatOstland, in all General Commissariats in the submitted sections of Dr.Labs vou l.7. As a result of the existence of a double-tracking system, zviade's Lande-Lama pn Jatung des Reichs, di isterium maintained, according to Organisatlonssystenen, which in a way which is as simple as possible, unobservable, ensures the administration of the general districts under the lowest possible conditions of foreign forces. Today, the District Commission as the Reichsbehörde are practically between the district elders (district chiefs) and the heads of the state's administration in the middle of the country's own department and work partly with these, partly (e.g. employment offices, county farmers, etc.) with its own authorities. There is no clear, task-like demarcation. In the lan- tarian administration itself, no German, but in individual cases, national forces are incorporated in the Reich's administrator. The tendency of the Reich authorities is to take care of a constantly growing proportion of the growing administrative businesses themselves. The reference to Bohemia and Moravia as a model area is based on a consultation with State Secretary Stuckart, who had recommended the local system, following a communication from ORR.Dr.Labs, and today's debate was limited to the subjects identified by the question in the letter of 1 July. As regards the situation in the Reichskommissariat Ostland, the following observations are of interest: 1.) The starting point of the administrative political transfers with us is the assumed and granted auto-nomy in the Imperial Commissariat Eastland the complete elimination by the Soviet Russians of a country's own administration, which only after the withdrawal of the Bolsheviks of 661