English Translation

The head of the capital administration of Prague, April 17, 1942. To senior group leaders. Mr. Under-Secretary of State Dr. von Burgsdorff had instructed me shortly before his departure to prepare a new building for the authority of the Reich Protector, with the intention of rejecting a number of groups from the divisions and making them independent. It was intended that the groups of justice, education and culture, higher education institutions, finance and postal services should be included. I therefore submitted to him the draft regulation, which proposed an amendment to the annexation decree of 18 Sept. 1940, which took account of the self-identification of these groups. Mr Unterotaatsoekretär then let me go back to this draft and told me during a presentation that although the draft regulation would formally reflect what was intended with regard to the division of the groups, the structure of the authority resulting from the implementation of these measures seemed to him to be so vague that he wanted to take the opportunity to discuss this matter again with you, Obergruppenführer. Dariber, with which of Er= follow this, has not sent me any more a communication. Dåe previous structure of the authority into a central valence and 4 departments is based on the previous decree on the structure of an authority of the Reich= protector in Bohemia and Moravia of 18 September 1940 - Ordinance Gazette d.Reichsprotectors 1940, p. 425 - which in turn is based on § 4 of the Ordinance on the structure of the administration, etc. of 1 September 1939 - RGBl.p. 1681 - in which it is said: