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bE/ A b s c h r i f t ! Department I Prague, 25, Pebruer 1943. ana 07 in. Report on Mission Berlin 23./24.2.43 1943 to group leaders. The main features of the planned Czech pay reform and the decision of the group leader to continue it as important for the war were discussed with St.S.Stuckart and St. S.Kritzinger. St.S.Stuckart originally had problems before the adult work, but after a discussion and presentation of the facts he agreed. His original proposal to examine whether it could not be helped more quickly by means of the allowance than by an overall reform, he withdrew after an in-depth discussion of the matter. In the Ministry of Finance, too, the fundamental concerns were not raised. Min.Dir. Woothke even had to consider whether the autonomous staff should not be raised to the German level in principle in order to satisfy them politically and to be able to demand them as from the Germans. (It was interesting to see how, in turn, he repeatedly tried to make political considerations, which were fundamentally incorrect. For him, everything that was regulated in the same way is politically correct, wrong, which does not fit into his system. In the first place, he tried to present in kin- ger speech how senseless and dangerous our Oberlandrats were, after all, after having German district heads, whom we should have regarded as Landrats. Through these and similar considerations, the support with him was initially quite sharp). Finally again with the personal speaker of the Secretary of State, Min. Rat.Gündel, who will provide his page for proper information of the St.S. Reinhart. I was the only one who could not approach St. S.Reinhart, because he was overloaded with the production of new taxes. In addition to the discussion of all the questions listed here under special paragraph, Mr Gündel referred to a child of pain of the Ministry of Finance; a Secretary of State said that none of the other peoples had lower burdens 43g KN49a