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

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62 officials who are politically and politically open-minded and are rarely found in the older, no longer armed years of mur gans. Apart from the fact that all of my previous efforts to use suitable older or otherwise non-combatable Brsats forces have remained quite successful, no similar erats could be created by the win-off of new officials from the Reich, who are completely alien to the local space. On the contrary, politically unskilled or heavy-handed officials can easily become a burden for the political leadership - especially in times of crisis.In detail, I can now outline the following picture in brief.The entire internal administration of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia is now only politically controlled by very few clearly elected officials. The relocation of German tasks to the autonomous administration, which becomes effective for us as Reichsauftragsverwaltung, is almost completely carried out. Thus, it could be concluded that in the entire central instan of the internal administration (State Ministry and Autonomous Ministry of the Interior) today only 16 officials of the higher or the upper middle office are still active. Only 26 German civil servants work for a staff of around l68o in the State Authority of Prague as a medium-sized body. Only the most important officials are now occupied by German government councillors on the actual administrative front, i.e. by the district authorities. From numerous other administrative authorities the Reicheauftragsverwaltungen had to be withdrawn again and individual German district heads were transferred to the management of several district head teams. A German district head of the Protectorate thus has to manage without German sub-districts districts with 200 - 300,000 people responsible. This apparent weakening of the German supervision leads on the Czech side to an intensification of internal resistance and to increased sabotage of the orders issued by the German authorities.