English Translation

After the dissolution of the Czechoslovak state, it can now be transferred to it by law. I attach fundamental importance to this transfer to the veterian development of the Sudetengau and the German people in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The division of the care of the area into the peripheral areas, as planned in political terms, will also be recommended in administrative terms. The proportion of the German population in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is too weak for the formation of a special self-government. The Reichsprotektor and the state administration assigned to it will therefore have to work together with the self-government bodies of the Sudetengaues, Bavaria and the Ostmark. The area of activity of the self-government bodies would extend in cultural terms in particular to the supervision of the German libraries and archives, scientific associations and societies, museums and theatres and further to the protection of monuments, culture and homelands, the state and ethnology, popular education and art promotion. They could continue to receive the support of the school system. Finally, the Germans in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia would also have to be looked after in a caring way by the self-government authorities as the responsible regional welfare associations for them. In particular, the welfare institutions and health resorts could also be available for the 56993 admission of German Reich citizens from the Protectorate. Durhhh such a regulation would create a simple and kia- rer administrative structure. At the same time, old* cultural relations will continue and keep alive the responsibility for the borderland tasks in the neighbouring Reichsgauen. I will discuss the closer implementation of this proposal with Mr. State Secretary K.H.Frank, who receives the copy of this report.