English Translation

25 copy of copy. The Reichsminister des Inneren Berlin, 13 July 1942 I BM 31542 NW 7, Unter den Linden 72 2099 To the Supreme Reich Authorities Betr.: Reclassification of the Oberlandrat districts in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. On the basis of the authorization by the Führererer decree on the administration in the protectorate of Böhmen and Moravia on 7 May 1942 (RGBl. I p. 329) the Reichsprotektor, in agreement with me, has delegated tasks and powers a) to the Upper Land Councils, which are entitled to the lower or higher administrative authorities in the rest of the Reich; b) the Reich's Protector, who are entitled in the remainder of the Empire to the higher administrative bodies, to the autonomous authorities of the Protectorate for performance on behalf of the Kingdom (vO.d.RProt. on the administration of the Reichsbeauftragsverwaltung in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of 23 May 1942 - voBl.d.RProt. S. ll8 - together with the First Implementation Ordinance on this from 23 May, 1942 - VoBl,d.FProt.S.ll9). By noting this, I add to the explanation: the Upper Land Councils, which were set up as Reich Authorities directly under the Reich Protector when the Protectorate was set up, in order to supervise the autonomous administration and to ensure that this administration operates in accordance with the intentions and objectives of the Reich, were too heavily burdened with ongoing administrative work by the opening of pure administrative tasks, which have been increasingly diverted from the autonomous management and transferred to the Upperland Councils; their departments had developed into a second German administrative body working alongside the Autonomous Administration (Landeamt - Bezirkshauptmann - Gemeinde). This development, which in the end led to a complete duality of the administration in the Protectorate, was met by the above-mentioned establishment of the Reich Commission Administration at the autonomous authorities of the general administration. To the Lord Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia The Prague