GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 579, sig. 110-4/427

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in endless schemes that would become increasingly futile, exhaust at Berlin's places. Maintaining the previous involvement of the protectorate offices with their valuable experience in the field of production, which has been gathered over many years, is in line with the basic idea that Reichsminister Speer has preceded his fundamental decree on the division of tasks in the war economy. It says there: "This concentration of the war economy simultaneously results in a simplification of the command. In doing so, he intended to use to a large extent the already existing, incorporated organizations, to avoid the formation of new posts, to remove double responsibilities, as far as they are not corrected by this decree, to advance on a case-by-case basis and to establish me in principle in no systematic, perhaps correct, but by their doctrinal version dangerous for the diversity of the entire war economy". In the case of Jhrer's approval on this basis, Joh intended to conduct the discussions at the Reichsministerium für Armor und Kriegsproduktion in Berlin. Unfortunately, a more crowded presentation of the very extensive and complex matter is not possible.