English Translation

151-8 - 3 - had to be safeguarded in the weight of assets. On the one hand, under these circumstances, the supervision of the Reich over the entire autonomous administration of the Protectorate must be particularly strong and powerful. Onthe other hand, a form of supervision was to be found which enabled the observance of autonomy. This has happened with the declaration of the Ministry of State and the measures I have ordered in this connection. The current Reichsaufsicht also in matters of a ministerial nature is exercised during the autonomous administration as advisor or in sueh formula deputizing position (heads of sections among others) built German forces, which, however, continue to belong to my business area. The highest level of supervision in Geetlt of the basic and political management of the autonomous administration is reserved to the German Ministry of State for Bohemia and Moravia, in which the technical tasks of all the Reitsressorts are summarized. Praktiech is responsible for the upper level of control, i.e. the control over the individual autonomous ministries the director of the abbey of the German State Ministry in far-reaching independence and self-responsibility. Lie - politiseh conditional - position of the autonomous ministers in this regard means, in view of the undiminished responsibility of the department heads towards me, a complicity of their work. In this context, the activities of the head of the abbey of the German Ministry of State for Bohemia and Moravia are at the same level as those of the presidents of the main departments in the government of the General Government, if any, to draw comparisons of this kind.