English Translation

19. Use only for the service! TRUPPENMERKBLATT for the stay in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Each commander of a unit of troops transferred to the protectorate has to avoid damage to imperial interests due to ignorance of the political contexts in Bohemia and Mähren, to take note of the following and to take into account when ordering the troops: 1. Bohemia and Moravia — ancient Reichsland — became a peaceful part of the Great German Empire in 1939 and accordingly Inl an d. The Führer has granted the Protectorate an autonomous administration whose orders are equally binding on Germans and Czechs. 2. Reichsaufsicht über die autonome Verwaltung und Oberste Steuerung der reichsigen Verwaltingliegenbe im Deutschen StaatsministerfürBöhmenundMähren (Dienstsitz: Prag, Czerninpalais, Tel. 093). The Wehrmacht's supreme representative in the Protectorate is the Wehrmascht authorised representative and commander in the Bohemian u n d M ä h r e n Wehrmächsitz; Prague, Platz der WehrMächt, tel. 098). 3. The a u t o n o m e administration is divided essentially as follows: President of the State, 8 ministries, State Authority Bohemia in Prague and State Authority Moravia in Brno. District authorities. At the head of the state authority is the State President. (Permanent representative: the German State Vice President). The head of the district authority, whose territory corresponds approximately to that of a Land Council in the rest of the Reich, is the district head, who can be German or Czech. The German interests within the autonomous administration are exercised in the form of the imperial order administration by German officials. In addition, the Oberlandrats in Pilsen, Budweis, Königgrätz, Iglau, Brno and Moravian-Ostrau are directly inspectors of the German Minister of State. 4.The Protectorate is also a customs and monetary part of the country and forms an extremely important part of German war economy. In the field of economy and nutrition the corresponding provisions of war apply as in the rest of the Reich. Schleich and black trade are unintentionally punished. Interventions in the economic life endanger the maximum performance of the protectorate for the German armor and therefore have to be omitted under all circumstances.