English Translation

The German Minister of State. 29 June 1944. (p.d.) St.M. 316/149/44. To Mr. Reichsminister für Armor und Kriegsproduktion Professor Speer, Berlin. Very venerable Mr. Imperial Minister ! From one of my services today I received your decree of 17.6.d.J8. - Mark ZA l00/l07 on the consolidation of the departments of the Reichsminister für Armor und Kriegsproduktion in Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. The decree with slight deviations literally agrees with the draft which you sent me with letter of the 2.3rd century - sign M 257/44 and to which I am referring by letter of 23.3.d.J8. - sign St.M. 149/20/44 (compare the attached FPotoscopy) has commented, No concerns expressed in this letter I must maintain in full. They are still there. by strengthening that, in accordance with the rules which have now been adopted, the territorial burden distributor, whose duties are carried out by a German official of the Autonomous Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, should also be responsible for the task of the protectorate. From the well-known political considerations it is worse excluded that an autonomous ministry holds instructions from a different place than the German State Minister for Bohemia and Moravia.