English Translation

96 - 3 - about whether she would be willing to continue to serve in the Protectorate would have the certain consequence that not a single official would offer himself to do so. It is also no wonder under these circumstances that all ReichsGerman officials have the most urgent desire to come out of the Protectorates to the front. This wish is reinforced - as has been reported on other occasions - by the danger of some disqualification of the officials working in the Protectorate in comparison with the front fighters after the end of the war. Perhaps the rich German officials, who have fulfilled their particularly heavy duty in the Protectorate, are still accused of being pushed away from military service. In this context, it can not be unmentioned that the already great psychological burden of the German civil service is aggravated by certain austerity measures. The great sacrifices that the Reichsdeutsche official has to bring constantly to the fatherland in the local area were at first no doubt abolished to a certain extent by a considerable extent generous treatment of his material concerns. By decree of the Reich Minister of Finance of 7.6.1939 - No.A.4519-lo533 IV -/RBB. S.l47/- received a protectorate allowance for both single and married officials who were seconded or transferred to the Protectorate. The protectorate grant could be granted double to officials with children in school education in places without suitable German schools. In addition, the Court of First Instance held that, in the event of a failure to fulfil its obligations under the Treaty on European Union, it had failed to fulfil the obligations laid down by the Treaty of Rome in the light of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community. In this case too, however, the protectorate allowance can no longer be granted in a double amount, but only in a simple amount. The measures taken as petty against the civil servants of the empire do not take into account that the price relations in the protectorates unfortunately have completely aligned themselves with those of the old empire. It must even be said that a large -4-