English Translation

19a.. 2 for Bohemia and Moravia and German Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour in the autonomous protectorate government. Jch informs of this. Since the matter has not been dealt with so far by me, what. e r e to want. The events are not with me, I am only partially known. The Minister of State pointed out that the draft should be worked out in agreement with the President Dr.Adolf. As regards the development of the whole of Prague, I would like to state once again that when the arms inspections were made out of the Reichsministerium Speer and when the chairman of the Rechtskommission was set up, it would have been the only right thing and the obvious thing in the Protectorate to ensure that the head of department V in the authority of the Reihsprotektor and autonomous minister of economic affairs and work had been appointed as chair of the Armaments Commission in Bohemia and Moravia, this was generally expected. It would have avoided all the difficulties which have arisen for two years from the regulation that the military inspector called upon the post in question. The correct solution was prevented by the fact that the then stv. Reichsprotektor, 1-Oberst-Groupenführer Daluege , in an interview with Reichsminister Speer in Berlin, previously unknown to the then Secretary of State Frank, gave his approval to the appointment of the Arms Inspector General Major Hernekamp as Chairman of the Defence Commission. As a consequence, Reichsminister Speer had suggested in this meeting that the armor inspector be appointed as head of department in the authority of the Reichsprotector, in order to ensure uniformity. The compromise solution now in place, which in the course of time had to lead to more and more unclear conditions that did not stand back from those in the rest of the Reich, has been successful in the other sectors so far, in general, to maintain the sole authority of the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia. The more serious the conditions become in Bohemia and Moravia, the more important it is to achieve unification.