English Translation

- 4.- The German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia acts as a collective lens, which absorbs all the command lines, transfers them and then, territorially accordingly, conducts them downwards in its own form. 3.) Territorial principle. These apparent successes of the territorial principle should lead to further downward application of this principle in order to prevent the Protectorate from developing the same unhealthy centristism and suffocating it on its own territory. 4.) Superior Councillors - Inspectors. The first attempt, which was made in this respect, namely the establishment of old-fashioned upper-level councils as large-scale medium-sized authorities, dealing with all powers and almost all responsibilities, failed because it led to the already well-known double-tracking between the rich's own and autonomous administrations and their consequences. It was the brilliant idea of Obergruppen leader Heydrich to eliminate this double track and to draw uniform command paths from the German top of the protectorate to the German-influenced state-owned administration up to the lower level, but at the same time to install safeguards to prevent the development of an unhealthy centralism. Without disrupting the power of administration in the Protectorate by overly territorial division and overly independent central authorities, he created new institutions in the Oberlandraten inspectors according to his full original idea, which combine the advantages of the territorial principle with the benefits of centralism and the mutual disadvantages far-reaching - Hend - 5 -