English Translation

TRUPPENMERKBLATT for the stay in the Protectorate Bohemian and Moravian Every commander of a unit of troops transferred to the Protectorates has to avoid damage to imperial interests due to ignorance of the political connections in Bohemia and Moravia, 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 DeutschenStaatsministerfürBöhmenundMähren (Security: Prague, Czerninpalais, Tel. 093). The Wehrmacht's supreme representative in the Protectorate is the Wehrmächt representative and commander in the Bohemian u n d M ä h r e n (Secretary: Prague , Platz der WehrMächt, tel. 098). 3. The a u t o n o m e administration is divided essentially as follows: President, 7 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), head of the district authority, whose territory corresponds approximately to that of a regional 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 commission 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 corresponding war regulations apply as in the rest of the Reich. Sehleich- und Schwarzhandel are unintentionally punished. Interventions in the economic life endanger the maximum performance of the protectorate for the German armor and therefore have to remain under all circumstances.