English Translation

25 The Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, November 1942. M.d.F.dg.b. xa T0 To Mr //-Group Leader State Secretary Dr.Stuckart Reichsministerium des Inneren in BerlinNW7 Unter den Linden 72. Subject: Ordinance on Reich Defence Commissioners and Simplification of Economic Administration of l6.ll.1942 D RGB1.I p.649). Mr Stuckart!as e After a thorough examination, I have come to the conviction that the regulation as a whole and in all its details is not in line with the conditions in the Protectorate. This agreement could not be achieved either by the special scheme for the Protectorate provided for. Apart from this, it is not necessary for the Protectorate to have a law governing the Reich because the objectives pursued by the decree have already been largely achieved here: brru The establishment of the Reich Defence Commissioners has been created in order to provide the Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Empire 10 - s0 and the Supreme Reich Authorities for the implementation of the Civil Defence of the Kingdom a responsible middle-level body at the 9th level, which at the same time provides the summary of all civil services in matters of Reich Defense. In the Protectorate, however, already by the Reichspro- MIEE detector the unity of the civil administration - namely the rich own as well as the autonomous - is ensured to the highest extent. As SO a kind of territorial minister with comprehensive jurisdiction, the Reich Protector is easily able to fulfill all tasks teb at stlloe gsako, ec8e1