English Translation

3 30 We shall be discussing today, under the chairmanship of Mr President K e h r l, the future organization of the management of goods in the Protectorate and the position of the Reich's commercial offices vis-à-vis the Bohemian-Mauritian Raun. I welcome the fact that, before we enter into the actual discussion of this subject and discuss questions of technical handling, I can speak a few words on the special political and economic aspects of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in Jhrem Kreis. It is a question of tearing down, so to speak, the foundations on which the management of goods will have to be based in the relationship between protectorate and the rest of the empire. Jch believes that what matters to me is to be able to make the most clear if I do not proceed from the positive, but from the negative, and link to a false question about the relationship between protectorate - kingdom, which still often appears now and has already caused a lot of misconceptions and various troubles. It is Prague whether the Protectorate is pursuing its own economic policy. This question, in whose neighbourhood the word "autonomy" of the Protectorates continues to haunt, must no longer be asked in the future. Just as the special state-law structure of the Protectorate cannot have the purpose of protecting the Protectorates from the Empire, but only serves to enforce the special political, popular and economic powers of the Empire in the Bohemian-Mauritian region, so there can be only a uniform economic policy for the entire Great=German Empire, including its protectorates, for which Berlin bears the responsibility. A special economy - 2 -