English Translation

8 - 7 - have to make that clerks of individual Reichsstellen - the joy of travel is still astonishingly great - without prior agreement of my authority visited enterprises of the Pro= tektorat and conducted there discussions on fundamental questions, which were politically completely deviating and attested to a complete Vrecognition of the political conditions in the Protectorate. This kind of handling, which is detrimental to the interests of the Reich, contradicts the long-standing basic regulation on the activities of the imperial posts in the Protectorate and must absolutely be omitted in the future. They do not believe, gentlemen, how much por=zellan they break up and how much with my fellow workers the work is made more difficult. Jch personally bears the responsibility to the Reichsprotektor for the fact that the new regulation of the management of goods in the Protectorate, which is now in force, does not in the least lead to political inconsistencies. - In terms of personnel, the need for a uniform management for the entire economic area arises mainly from the relationship between the German and the Czech workers, an area which is probably one of the most delicate in the world. The supervising post with purely Czech personnel at my ministry with a staff of several hundred persons is supervised and actually managed by a very small staff of German gentlemen under the direction of the representative of the Reichsprotector - these are only three higher and three middle officials as well as the approximately twenty liaison= men of Jhrer Reichsstellen. This means a saving of German people, which can probably be described as exemplary, but is only a matter of course in the 4th war= year. This small German staff can therefore only take care of the fundamental orientation of the management measures in the protectorate, but by no means with details or even with personnel - 8 -