English Translation

0 - 2 - politics of Prague has never existed and will not exist in the future. However, the Reichsprotektor has been entrusted by the Führer the exclusive responsibility for the Protectorate. It is a total responsibility in which separation into political and economic aspects is not possible. Jn Bohemia and Moravia, where Germans and Czechs have the right to their homeland, all have a special national emphasis, even the apparently purely economic ones. The important economic forces of the Protectorate can only be made serviceable to the interests of the Reich in vol= lem extent if the foreign population of about 7 million Czechs behaves calmly and is satisfied within the scope of what is possible and acceptable in the 4th year of the war. This finding had to lead to the central and uniform management of all economic questions relating to the Protectorate from one place within the Protectorates. The smooth integration of the protectorate economy into the entire economy of the empire, which in the past now= about 3 12 years took place under the various aspects such as Germanization, dejudgment, conversion to German economic conditions, foreign exchange management, commodity management, rationalization, was only possible in this way and can be described as completely successful. This task, to which the economic department of the Reichsprotektor has devoted itself in the strictest agreement with the central offices of Berlin, required a broad organisational autonomy internally, as expressed in its own legislation=right of the Ministry of the Economy of the Protectorate. The double-track, which initially existed between the economic department of the Reichsprotector and the autonomous Ministry of Economic Affairs and Social Affairs -3 -