English Translation

The German Minister of State Prague, the one for Bohemia and Moravia I RV - 7130 Subject: Conversations to the Wehrmacht from the administration in Bohemia and Mähren. xf.xs 1.)Note: The suggestions recommended by the Ministerial Councillor Krieser were taken into account and the new draft was worked into it after further consultation with the Department of Economics and Labour. Md Emn 2.) To the High Command of the Wehrmacht te Berlin. Subject: (as above) From the public administration in Bohemia and Moravia had to be released, at the beginning of September d.o. on the basis of a completely surprising pefehls of the OKw. 681 man, i.e. 50 % of all front-useable conscripts of 1897 and younger, for military power. This extraordinary interference in the staffing of the political administration of the Protectorate has already led, as I have now stated, to such a strong and outwardly visible weakening of the German administrative front that politically undesirable consequences cannot be missed. I am therefore moved to give a completely undisturbed picture of the current staffing situation, and I will show that, in the event of further confiscation, the administrative security of peace and order in Bohemia and Moravia will no longer be guaranteed. However, the necessary intervention of the police or military forces would require a multiple of the forces that can still be transferred to the Wehrmacht today. First of all, I should like to say that even before the last confiscation campaign at the beginning of September, there was only one thin veil of German surveillance bodies over the entire Czech administration. The withdrawal of every single German force, which had to be addressed as a key force, had to weigh all the more sçhwerer, since the political conditions of this area require by every German official not only/first-class expertise and a particularly impeccable political attitude, but above all long-standing, thorough studies of the political specialities and difficulties of the Protectorate. So, working skills, speed of work and the conditions of the country require extremely mobile and politically open German officials who, in the older years, no longer have to defend themselves