English Translation

4-9.1 12 The Sudetenland as the immediate Reidhsgau was formed by the Reichsgau Sudetensland. Already with the decree of the leader of the 1st 10th century. In 1938 (§8 8 and 9) the Minister of the Interior, as had already been done with the reunification of Austria and later also with the integration of other regions, had been authorized to lay down the legal and administrative provisions necessary to implement and supplement this decree, which provision was supplemented in the Act on the Reunification of the Sudeten-German Territories, so that he also had to adopt the legislative and administrative regulations necessary to carry out and supplement that act. For the introduction of the Reichsrecht in the integrated territories there is a special regulation, to which we come back later (below VI). II. THE SUDETENLAND AS A DIRECTLY REICHER GAU As for the question of whether, at all and to what extent, the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic, which was incorporated into the German Reich, was to form a divisional unity within the Reich, various solutions were conceivable, so the Reich Constitution also offered for the legal form of the integration of the main part of the sudeten German regions, which were grouped into a unit within the Empire. In addition to the Prussian provinces and the extra-Prussian countries, there was the immediate eastern Moravian gaue, which already had a somewhat similar predecessor in the backward Saarland. The form of the Prussian province was not considered, apart from everything else, for geographical reasons. Among the two other types, with the so-called divisional gestets of 25 March 1939 (§ 1) just quoted, and then even more clearly with the Gesety on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland of 14 April 1939 (RGBl. I 780), the so called Sudetengau-Geset, which of the immediate Reichs Gaus was elected. It is not without significance that precisely this form emerged in the reclassifications of German folk and cultural soils: the Saar region, the Usterreich region, Sudetenland and later the two Ostgauen Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland. The idea is not to be dismissed by the hand that precisely in this immediate Reichsgau the type crystallizes itself, which will be at the end of the Reich reform of the general, which naturally does not exclude variations adapted to the diversity of German reality and the wideness and diversity of the German habitat.