English Translation

Muyrlustisui The Head of Division I Prague, 4 October 1943. T9 Draft letter from the Minister of State to the Minister-General for the Reiohsverwaltung Berlin, Reichsministerium des Innerz. Subject: Confiscations from the sector of the authorities. Reference letter of 1.9.1943 - I Ra 173/43-27o. The public administration in Bohemia and Moravia had to be released at the beginning of September on the basis of a completely surprising order of the OKH 68l man, i.e. 50% of all conscripts who were capable of military use at the front in 1897 and younger. This extraordinary interference in the staffing of the political administration of the Protectorate, as I have now stated, has already led to such a strong and outwardly visible weakening of the German administrative front that politically unwinnable consequences cannot be missed. I therefore find myself in a position to give you a completely undisturbed picture of the current staff situation, and I will show that, in the event of further confiscation, the administrative settlement of peace and order in Bohemia and Moravia will no longer be guaranteed. However, the necessary uniting of the police or military forces would claim 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 a very 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 heavily, since the political conditions of this area by every German official did not require a first-class knowledge of chess and a particularly impeccable political attitude, but above all long-standing, thorough studies of the political peculiarities and difficulties of the Protectorate. This means that the labour market, the pace of work and the conditions of the country require a great deal of movement.