English Translation

103 Subject: Concentration of the war economy in the Protectorate (Leader's Decree v. 2.9.1943 - RGB1. I p. 529).I.) The most advantageous condition would be to maintain the present state, according to which Berlin's instructions from the commissioner for the four-year plan (General Authorized Officer for Arms Tasks, General Representative for Labor) would be given exclusively to Minister of State (cf. II.) For the exercise of the powers of the Reich Minister for Armaments and War Production in the Protectorate, the following possibilities arise: 1.) Minister of Arms—→ Arms Inspection (Army Office) Prague Complete elimination of the Minister of State and the Autonomous Ministry of Economics. 2.) Armaments Minister - Ministry of Economics and Labour Elimination of the Minister of State. Autonomous Ministry, the case according to the Minister's office of the Berlin Steering. 3.) Defence Minister -Minister of State -Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour Instructions by the hand of the State Minister to the Autonomous Ministry of Economy. Some involvement of the Minister of State with the possibility to negotiate primarily from a political point of view. Nevertheless, the Minister for Economic Affairs subordinated to the Minister. 4.) Minister for Armaments -- Minister for State instructions are given solely to Minister of the State, which, however, thereby becomes internally subordinated body of the minister for defence. Execution exclusively by state ministers by means of instructions to autonomous Ministry of Economic Affairs. The autonomy and its steering by state Ministers are formally unaffected. Maintaining the Central Economic Staff as advisory body of the Minister of State at points 3 and 4 makes sense. Only legislation of the Ministry of Arms for Protectorate according to the general guidelines (RdSchr. d. Reichsministers and chiefs of the Reich Chancellery) only in agreement with the Minister of State.