English Translation

160 - 2 nisvolien In response to the local needs already some time ago, the officers of the Armaments Officer and the Representative for rationalization could be united with the office of President of the Central Association of Industry in one hand. In the area of economic self-government, this creates a strong body which ensures the smooth running of arms production. On the national side, on the other hand, there is a disintegration of the authority of command, which not only calls into question rapid resolutions and their immediate implementation, but at the same time complicates the task of the individual enterprise by the multitude of contracts and requirements which it imposes on a wide variety of bodies. These difficulties would be solved with one blow, to whom, in accordance with my proposals, you would entrust the head of the Department of Economics and Labour of my Ministry, who, as you know, is also Minister of Economy and Labour in the Protectorate, with the direction of the Arms Commission and Arms Inspection through the Union of Personnel. The existing organization of your services in the Protectorate would of course not be affected in any way by this - 23230. I would be very grateful to you, very venerable party leader, if you - without prejudice to the efforts made for the rest of the Reich -