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

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Sh St.M. IV D - 49 o/43. Prague, December 7, 1943. SA Urgent! Present immediately! To Mr. Reichsminiater and head of the Reich Chancellery Dr.Lammers, Berlin W8, Voßstraße 6. Dear Mr. Imperial Minister ! Your personal letter from 6.12.d.Js. - Nr. I would like to take note of the fact that I can now count on your written opinion in the very next few moments. In the interests of complete clarity, I should like to stress the following: in the discussion on 24 July with you and Mr Reichsleiter Bormann, I have explained in detail the problem and the solution I intend to solve. It was immediately necessary to improve the autonomous remuneration in a factual and political way and to carry out the improvement under the responsibility of the so-called compensatory allowance system. 355/43 on the basis of a detailed description of my point of view, also in writing, and in writing from the l4.8.d.Js. - sign Rk. 9l50 C, that the further processing could never take place on the agreed date. Unfortunately, only in the subsequent period has the common basis of departure been shifted according to the direction that the Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Germany