STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1101, sig. 109-4855

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3s copy! Reichsklei Bln DtStaatsMinPrague St.M.IV d - 49 P/43 Prague, December 10, 1943 22.45 Urgent. Present immediately. To -Obergruppenführer Staatsminister Frank, currently Berlin, Reichskanzlei. Obergruppenfahrer! According to a recent report of the Department of Finance, the agents of the Reichsfinanzministerium (Amtsraten) intend to carry out their work. To propose to the Reich Minister of Finance the following: "The salary improvements provided here are to be approved almost without exception. This applies especially to officials outside the school administration, government force and police, in which only one grade would encourage the reduction of the final salary by Rll 2,- monthly. In the school administration certain final receipts are to be reduced by Council l0, - to R 25, - monthly. In some cases, similar reservations have to be made in the case of government troops and protectorate police. The comparisons to the Reich's salary drawn in the proposal of the German Minister of State may not be recognized in all cases. This is to be accepted, however, if the German Minister of State elects from the