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Security service of the Reichsführer 4f Prag-Bubentsch, 15.1.1943. SD section Prague Sachsenweg telex 774-44 01 III A SA 376 .8.M.143/43 Secret! 0 I m 1/a To the Secretary of State be -Group leader K. H. Frik De Ca'i:s at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and-Mähren 6 Prague: in Bohmanullanzen. Eing. 18. JAN. 1943 Betr.: Vermittlung von Kriegsverdienstkreuzen. Vorg.: Ohne. According to a report received here, it is said that it caused indignation that the following members of the Reich Protector's authority were awarded war service crosses in a manner unequally higher than other German departments. For example, of the 465 members of the Reichsfinanzverwaltung, among whom many very well-deserved men were, only 19 had received the War Merit Cross II.Kl. (without Schw.), and men who had been involved in the establishment of the financial administration in the Protectorate since l939 had not yet been awarded. It would therefore be desirable to avoid favouring the members of the central authorities in the awarding of military service crosses. ad teron Cerlis i 4 - Sturmbannführer Jis Ronderin tibenaue poy $\n^{22}2$ f.2. 2ay 7.43. .X11 st-2/43 141