STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 48, sig. 109-1/54

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41 The Reichsprotektor Prag, which occurs in Bohemia and Moravia 1/0 With the management of the shops pure inscription is attached ! Subject: Internal structure of the authorities of the Reicheprotektors . Very venerable Mr Reichsminister ! According to § 4 of the decree on the construction of the administration and the German security police in the Protectorate Bohemia and Mähren of 1 Sep- tember 1939 (RGBl. I p. 1681) the Reichsprotektor affirms the internal structure of his authority "in agreement with the Reich's Minister of the Interior as the central office for Bohemia and Mühren". This provision is more open to the fact that the participation of the Minister of the Interior in the establishment of the Reich Protector's authority appeared to be of value in view of the initial experience of the integration of the former Ostmark and the Sude-ten-German territories in the centre. With the position of the Reicheprotector as the Cberste Reichebehörde, and above all the sole representative of the Führer de bar. Such an extensive influence of a Supreme Reicheberteer on the inner design of another is otherwise unknown and doubtless suitable to affect the reputation of the last. Rather, Ea derives from a natural conception and general practice that an imperial authority of the renge of the Reich Protector decides on its internal organization itself. Ieh may, by the way, block the fact that éirh the Governor General in Kralau - regardless of the jurisdiction of such a central body for the Governor-General (§ 8 of the Führerererverlässung An Mr. Reichsminieter and head of the Reich Chancellery Dr. Lammers i.n BerlinWe Voßstraße 6.