STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1951, sig. 109-6/43

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73 is to be regarded as immoral. I also believe that there is a legal fact of infidelity. Because of the importance of this question, I have had a special legal opinion issued by Rosa-Alscher on the validity of this act, which is attached to my main report. On the day of the signing of his employment contract, the coercive administrator, through the two subordinate bodies, also concluded an employment contract for the young son of the governor Birthelmer, who, in addition to certain renumerations, provided for an annual income of K l56,000.--. This contract, too, is invalid, as it would have required the approval of the body that appointed Rosa-Alscher as the coercive administrator, namely the responsible ministry. In the meantime, Birthelmer, at the initiative of Mr. Gauleiter's jury, whom I was able to discuss this question recently, has waived his employment contract; Rosa- Alscher, on the other hand, has not yet. If my proposals are approved by you, it would be possible to proceed practically in such a way that Stoupal's re-establishment in his Aemter is made dependent on the acceptance of the conditions imposed on him by the office of the Reich Protector. I believe that, on the basis of the proposals, we could now achieve everything that we want to achieve over time in the German interest, especially for reasons of national policy, in the whole area of the "Stoupal Group".