English Translation

- this may be apparent from the course of action - how it must have a service with the order for the consolidation of the German people in the field of land and settlement within the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In addition, it can fulfil all the functions that are gladly performed in the integrated eastern areas by the various settlement authorities and settlement networks. However, this association of responsibilities and powers to a department does not appear logical only with regard to the previous Czech organisation. On the contrary, it is justified by the fact that the relatively small expansion of the German people's soil and the comparatively small proportion of Germanism in the population as a whole does not in any way make a wide-ranging and diversified administrative apparatus of a wide variety of departments appear doable. Moreover, such a multi-part structure of new judicial services would hardly be able to enjoy the advantage of "districting" which is extremely desirable in view of the existing autonomy, as is possible in the case of the department of the commissioner's head by its incorporation into the existing organisation of the Czech Land Office. Nor would any other of the newly created institutions have the opportunity to apply the traditional principles of the Czech soil reform measures in favour of a German popular policy without causing a stir. 101et VIII Following the above-mentioned work-related and organizational preparations, the department of the commissioner's head is now at a stage of development which will soon bring about practical measures to consolidate the German people. However, the continuing work in this sense is stopped by the fact that so far it has not been clarified,