English Translation

36a property of the State, by means of the request of one central authority to the other may request for purposes of state defense. If an agreement is not reached, the government decides. There is no doubt that § 6 is applicable in an unaltered way if a central authority of the Protectorate is required to fulfil its obligations in the field of imperial defense. the Ministry of Transport of the Protectorate ordered that the construction of a strategic railway be initiated or that the autonomous postal administration should set up an important telegraph management, so that these departments can use properties dedicated to other administrative branches of the protectorate for their purposes on the basis of § 6. The special feature of the present case now lies in the fact that it is precisely the ministry of the patronate that has continued to fall, which primarily to requirements according to § 6 aaO. However, the gap created by the abolition of the Minister for National Defence was soon closed by the fact that the tasks of this ministry were transferred to the German Wehrmacht including the Waffen-SS. This process has its legal basis in Article 7 of the Führer's Decree on the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of 16 March 1939, where - according to the Empire the Protectorates granted military protection and in the exercise of this protection in the Protectorat garrisons and military installations. In this situation, the application of the Enteigungsgesetz in favour of the German Reich, as provided for in Section 1 (1) of the V0 of April 11, 1940, within the scope of the protection assumed for the Protectorate, entitles the German Wehrmacht (Wehrmaat-SS) to exercise the powers under § 6 aaO. in place of the former Ministry of National Defence. It cannot be the purpose of the new regulation to subjugate the Reich authorities with regard to the defence of the Protectorate's complaints which are in proportion to the ministerial of na- 27409 Archiationale