THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2387, sig. 109-12/32

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4-1a 18 The administration in the Sudetenland after which he delegated the powers for the area of the order police to the chief of the police and the orderly police commander after him to the Reichskommissar für die sudetendeutsche Gebiete in Reichenberg, for the field of the security police to a chief of security police and for the following posts subordinate to him: a) the commander of the Security Police to the imperial commissioner for the sudetetenGerman territories in Reichberg. (b) the authorities of the secret state police in the Sudeten German territories have not been formally repealed; it appears to apply mutatis mutandis to the relevant departments of the Reichsbanker des Sudetetenland. In interpreting the authorization given to the Reichsführer and head of the German police, the words "to maintain security and order must be observed no less than the words, "even outside the limits otherwise determined". A final formulation of policing powers in the National Socialist spirit can only take place with the creation of a uniform German police law. What the gau self-government is now reaching, it must first be stressed that besides the sport care it is entitled to, the sport supervision, i.e. a task of the state, was entrusted to it (vo. v. 20. 6. 1940, RGBl. I 900). As standards for the exercise of the self-administrative authority, the 1st Vo. on the assignments of the Reichsgaue as self-government authorities of 17 July 1939 (RGBl. l 1269), the Vo. about the administration of the "Reichsgau" as self administration authorities of 25 November 1939 (RGBI. I 2373) and according to § 7, para. 2, the vo. to a certain extent also the implementing decrees on the municipal order and other provisions of municipal law already in force in the Old Kingdom, and also, of course, the Sudeten- gau set of 14.4.1939 (RGBl. I 780), which is frequently cited for the Suthetengau. It cannot be denied that the idea of self-government by the Vo. In 1939 a dilution was found, in so far as it was ordered that, apart from the Gauhauptmann, the civil servants and employees of the public institutions operated by the Reichsgau, and in certain cases, in which these are tasks which are predominantly determined by the landscape, even the self-government is not realized by own civil servants, but by richly-immediate officials, a provision whose expediency can be doubted, if one wishes a real self-administration. In the gau Sudetenland , however, cine has developed such under the leadership of a