STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, INV. 40, Sig. 109-1/45

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Prague, 9 February 1942 The commander of the security police h and the SD Tgb.No. BdS - I - PETNGU OPE MIM Subject: Reclassification of the Oberlandrat districts 065 80e L BLOCNEU 1.) Note: M 1800- When the Oberlandsrat districts DUgUONG are reclassified, it must be assumed that they will be completely exempted from administrative work and that they only have to attend to an inspection task. As long as the competences now exercised by the Upper Land Councils in their own administration are not transferred to the 28P district authorities, it is necessary to await this merger of the Upperland Councils. However, the transfer of different responsibilities to the district authorities is only possible if a German department slewbod dolened-do is installed with each district head team or at least the district head is German. I would refer here to the passport and mOn OOE e-reporting system, to the arms industry and to the various national political tasks which can only be dealt with by officials of the Federal Republic of Germany. At least KORM BNAT must be supervised. 0 If this shift of responsibilities is carried out, the space allocated to a Superior Council no longer plays an essential role. It will also be necessary to cross the party borders (limits of the district 420 804 lines) in order to achieve a similar economic and traffic ratio of R 10TL8 moderately closed Oberlandratsbezirken to Toma The population and the above points of view would be roughly as follows: a) Moravia: 2 Oberlandratesbezirke, b) Bohemia: 4 Oberland Council districts with a special position of Groß-Prague. In Moravia it would be necessary to form: -bnaitedo nawen etb edzed na) an Oberlandrat district of Moravia-Ostrava, with its seat in Moravia-Eastrau, consisting of the jetzi- - 2-