English Translation

9a -4 = (2) The departments are divided into groups and units according to the instructions of the Reich Protector, the independent groups being divided into units. If this structure is carried out, it is apparent that in the future the need to summarize the tasks is partly shifted from the individual heads of department to the superior authority, at the time of Mr. Staats= secretary, since the latter is no longer directly subordinated to the four heads of division, but also to another five heads of the group. The fact that purely schematically viewed and partly also in the practical work this does not represent an improvement compared to the previous state, should not be emphasized. I also fear that individual Berlin departments will again bring their wishes to the authorities represented by & s e l b s t a n d i g e groups to the discussion. I am thinking of the Reichsnährungsministerium, the Reich Forest Office and the Reich Ministry of Labour. Of these three ministries, the wish will certainly be made to sing their group out of Division II. These wishes could so far be met with the indication that other departments with their responsibilities would be assigned here to departments whose individual groups were not in an immediate administrative context= related. According to my knowledge, only the Reichspostministerium has so far made a commitment to the removal of the Post Group from the Transport Department.According to my opinion, this separation could also be justified as an exception to the other ministries, because one could point to the special defence=political tasks of the Eichspost and their necessary uniform separate treatment throughout the Reich= area, tasks whose separate Be= 21352 far away