THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 398, sig. 110-4/245

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In the case of criminal justice, 73 judges, civil servants and employees of the German judicial authorities had to be released suddenly, although the business burden in the main area of criminal law administration was constantly increasing. the nine-hour working time of the officials to 12 hours (increased) in the event of the absence of the previous free days and the holiday. The few German forces still existing to date have been almost completely withdrawn from the protectorate justice administration in the course of the confiscations. The occupation of the cultural policy references has also shrunk to a minimum, with the addition of 4 general speakers 2 at the same time. An in-depth working method cannot be carried out any more. The substitutes employed represent only an insufficient relief. It is clear that any further convocation of important branches of propagandist-cultural-political work would have to paralyse and have obvious consequences in the Czech sector. In the economic administration, it is the special situation that the leading German official cannot confine himself solely to guiding and supervising work, but still has to work on a number of areas as a specialist officer. It should only be mentioned that the permanent contact with the Reich's ministries, management bodies and export inspection bodies in Berlin, which is absolutely essential in all areas of the industrial war economy, must be exclusively in German hands. The same applies within the Protectorate for the traffic with the arms inspection and the German heads of the economic groups. In these circumstances, it is particularly/ketestrephel's effect that of a total of 15 senior officials 6 and 7 senior middle-level officials only 6 had to be transferred to the Wehrmacht. In order to monitor all management measures, a control department has been set up at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, at the head of which has been a significant senior official. After the last confiscation operation, he has had to take over an official in addition to the care of 60 staff, in addition various fields of expertise, namely the departments of glass, ceramics, wood processing industry as well as stones and earth. the area of foreign trade and foreign exchange management, where a single German government council now has to monitor a Czech apparatus of 170 people without the assistance of another official or employee. It should also be borne in mind that the German-led Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, with its own monitoring posts, has not only to carry out the tasks of two agricultural offices, but also functions of the Reichswirtschaftsministerium and of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs.