English Translation

99 - 4 - to avoid prejudicing the state and the party's political and administrative evaluation of civil servants. This regulation, which has been introduced from a very specific point of view for a small sector of civil servants, which is already subject to considerable objections in its present scope, cannot be applied to a solution - albeit only provisional - to the salary problem of the protectorate staff. Whole groups of civil servants - and the most socially weak - would otherwise be essentially excluded from an improvement; for other groups the improvement would only be possible in the first or only in the later salary levels. Moreover, an approximation to the Reich's pay system would be inevitable; the nature of the protectorate's salary would be destroyed. With regard to the understanding that you, like Mr Reichsleiter Bormann, have given my oral statements, I have soon had the improvement in pay made in accordance with the above principles, and I will shortly inform you of the expected increase in the budget for the Protectorate. In my opinion, the division of the Minister of Finance of the Reich is affected by the improvement of the salaries only to the extent that the amount of the matriculation contribution to the Reich to be paid by the Protectorate could be affected. Moreover, it is a matter exclusively of the autonomous pay system and thus of the Imperial Protector. I would be grateful to you, Mr Reichsminister, if you would consider it necessary to take the appropriate part of the Reichsressorts in question.