English Translation

5 o I could only say to Dr.Ružička in the extremely painful Situatión that I was as surprised by the decree of departure as he was. Ružiöka understandably accepted the explanation completely incredulously. Her name was: Representatives did not comment at all on the remarks made by Ružička, a behaviour which by no means facilitated the situation. The incident gives me reason to raise the following fundamental question: Since the establishment of the German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia, the situation has been based on the established Führeran- gesetz of 20.8.vvv.Js. It is therefore necessary that the service of the Reich in the Protectorate, which is not subject to me, carry out their activities in close contact with me and this is expressed in their name. By decree of the Chief of the High Command of the Wehrmacht of the 4.8.v.Js. In accordance with this, the official description "The Wehrmacht authorized officer at the Reichsprotektor and commander in the Wehrkreis Böhmen and Moravia" in "Der Wehrmascht authorized by the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia and commanders in the wehrkreis Bohemia and Mähren" has been destroyed. In a similar way, the Reieharbeitsführer in-one, together with me, decreed from the 20th October to the 15th July, that "The Arbeitsgau- führer at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia" would henceforth be called "The Higher ReichsarbeitsdienstführER at the German Minister of State for Bohemia and the Moravian".