English Translation

- 3 - 5. Today, the Protectorate is often regarded throughout the Empire as a pattern, almost as the only phenomen, studied by others and recommended as an imitative example. The reason for this is that in the Protectorate, as the only area in Great Germany, it has been possible to get rid of Berlin's centralism to a large extent and to create and maintain a sufficiently independent position for the perception of territorially limited own affairs. The two conflicting principles, namely the Zen- a d a p Reichsgebiet, led to a clear victory of centralism (perhaps out of the fear psychosis of which the German people were affected in memory of the devastating consequences of its centuries of territorial division) and only in the Protectorate to a victory of the territorial principle. And what is even more beautiful about this example is the knowledge, which has become common knowledge today, that the victory of the territorial principle in the Fro- tektorat did not lead to a foreign development, but that the overall interests of the Reich and the Reich approach of the Protectorate had only advantages. The graph Annex 1 is intended to illustrate the special position of the Protectorate, while the command lines of the individual Berlin central offices and specialist administrations sometimes run directly up to the lower level, sometimes - e.g. in the middle stage with the Reich governors, supreme presidents or government presidents, - only as if by Oesen - 4 -