STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2329, sig. 109-11/131

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38a: - 2 - Conditions of the Protectorate. From 1940 onwards, in the Protectorates, the Upper Land Councils are the allegiances which have to issue pass-through certificates, with the exception of the authority of the Imperial Protector for the issuing of pass-over certificates for certain cases. The issue of pass-through tickets to foreigners and stateless persons, which had previously been reserved to the state police stations in Prague and Brno, is therefore also transferred to the Oberlandrats. However, I still ask that pass-over tickets and pass-by tickets to foreigners and stately persons should be followed only after the applicant has been checked by the competent state police. Permissible and pass-by certificates to Jews are to be granted only in agreement with the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Prague XvIII, Ártilleriestr. ll, to the extent that a division of the latter is permitted under the decree of the Reichsführer 4. An exhibition of pass-through certificates in cases other than those listed in the overview is not acceptable. However, a generous standard must also be applied to members of the Reich and the People's States who live in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, provided that the applicants are impeccable. The reasons for departure, which were found to be necessary and justified in the individual special instructions according to the previous practice, may also continue to be a sufficient basis for the issuance of pass-through certificates:inidas rest of the Reich 212 :/