English Translation

16 By order of the Führer of 22 March 1939, the People's Germans in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were handed over to the care of the Gauleiter of Gaue Sudetenland, Niederdonau, Oberdonau and Bavarian Ostmark. After the reorganization of the organizational system has been carried out in the three main Gauen /Sudetenland, Niederdonau, Oberdonau/, the same form of organization must necessarily take place in the areas of Res Protectorates Bohemia and Moravia for the People's Germans, which are now assigned to these Gauen. The decree on the reorganization and resolution of organisations in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia dated 13.6.1939 /R.G.B.I., p.485/ only a small part of the German organisational system was recorded in the protectorate of Böhmen and Moravia. The Commissioner for Organisations in the Czech and Moravian Pro- tectorates deals only with those organizations whose majority of the members reside in the Sudetenland or which belong to an umbrella organisation, whose organisa- tion offices and members are mainly located in the Sudetengau.The so-called Volksdeutsche Organisa- tions / Seat in the Protectorate, membership wholly or mainly in the protectorate/, the so- called Utraquisi organizations / Seat on the Protectorates, less than 50% of the membership is German/, as well as the professional associations of the commercial economy, agriculture and forestry are not included in the above-mentioned regulation. For further explanation, I would like to mention a few things: The former German state employees of the Czech Republic were forced to join the relevant Czech /utraquist / state official organisations. Their rights acquired through 20 years of membership must be safeguarded. In the present case, the present volsdeutsche workers in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia will inevitably find themselves much worse off than the workers of the Old Reich and the Gau Sudetenland, since the