English Translation

tb - 2 - do not come into question that Berlin's central authorities direct autonomous services in the Protectorate. The authority of the Reichsministerium für Armor und Kriegsproduktion could rather be exercised mur over the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia, who in turn provides the autonomous service=, i.e. in the main the autonomous Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour with instructions. If this were not to happen, a German authority and the German Minister of State's view of the situation in Bohemia and Moravia could emerge from this. After a long speech and counter-debate, Reichsmini= ster Speer agreed to deal with all correspondence mur with the German Ministry of State for Bohemia and Moravia, but not directly with the autonomous Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour.' However, he stressed that this should not result in any delay, as promised by Minister of State Frank. The second question was whether the armaments officer in Prague and the chairperson of the Armaments Commission for Bohemia and Moravia, through the extension of the responsibility of the Reich Ministry for Armament and War Production in the Protectorate, as ordered by the Führer, would have an extension of his competence in the protectorate. On the basis of the statements made by the Minister of State Frank, Reich Minister Speer declared that, in delimiting the powers of the Arms Inspection Prague and the Chairman of the Riistungskommission on the one hand and the Autonomous Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour on the other hand, there should not be any change to the state before the Führer's decree of September 2, 1943. In particular, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour will continue to order the closures in the Protectorate for the win-off of armaments workers. In the case of the decommissioning of enterprises with more than 100 members, the Federal Ministry of Armaments and War Production must obtain the prior approval of the Reichsministerium für Armor und Kriegsproduktion, taking into account the overall implamation for the Great German Reich and the occupied territories.