STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 21, sig. 109-1/24 (damaged)

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2a - 4 - The way to 3) must be further rejected in principle because it gives the Czechs the opportunity to evade all responsibility and to express their joy in this regard. After all, it is the least feasible for us today, since it brings with it an overburden of the obvious businesses with small administrative work, which leave the Czechs no doubts and the German officials are unable to fulfil their own managerial function. Insofar as it is not necessary in individual cases to require a particular Griinde to take over responsibility, the development will have to be made clear (in the Ministry of the Interior he Dr. Landmann appointed as section head; as prepared, I intend to appoint him a Czech citizen and then, after some time, to withdraw his conversion task from responsibility and appoint him General for his section). 2) and (3):The present juxtaposition of the various forms of discrimination leads to difficulties inasmuch as the German almost eed at, acting under points 2 and 3, belong and do not sharply separate these two points from one of them. So I have found that in individual ministries it has been ordered that the approval of a gene i referent should be considered as the consent of the Reichsproteltor. This is completely wrong in this porm, for otherwise it will happen - and it has happened that in the distant mini- steries in the same matter various statements of the Reichsprotector become known A wondrous opportunity, 01173