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No. 566 Berliner Börsen-Zeitung 30.11.1940 According to own laws sedhio of the State Secretariat at the votektor in Bohemia and Moravia. By Major d. Fl. ERNST KUNDT, MdR., Under-State Secretary The General Government is a side country of the Great German Empire. It is not a Reichsgau, like the district-free and headed by a city captain. The area directly included in the Reich west of the district captain is both his tasks and his neralgouvernements. However, it is Reichsland, because his jurisdiction according to more like a Landrat in the Old Reich eastern border forms the eastern border of the middle Euro or an Oberlandrat in protectorate. His administrative European German Reich. area varies between 2000 and 4000 sq.km. Therefore, there are also branch offices of the district captain, which are occupied with The Protectorate differs from the General Land or City Commissioners. gouvernement is very important in that the German administration in the General Government does not have oversight. All these offices are only set with German administration over a non-German state administration. They have also represented with few obvious personnel, but even state administration is down to the first instance from governor general and government to binunter. The general government of all areas of all administrative branches to accomplish great: is thus the first and only country inhabited by non-This country of the Great German Empire forever by German, but by Germans peace-national socialist administrative art is moderately administered by non German. However, non-Germans are to be safeguarded in the East and are to perform accordingly as organs of the German administration, especially in which the German people are to lead. Municipal administration is to be co-used. Thus, for the first time in the General Government German administration is implemented according to National Socialist legal principles over a non- German population area for the duration. The German People's Islands are already partially already and are still being resettled into the eastern Gauge of the German Reich. A kind of own state administration forms the Ge- neralgouvernement in several respects. The leader has delegated the legislative power to the Governor General. The laws of the Reich do not apply here, but only the regulations of the Ganeralgouverneur and the former Polish law (in the field of civil law even in part the old Austrian and Russian law), unless it has been amended or repealed by the new regulations ofthe Governor General. dio difrabes fn dar The General Government also has its own financial and customs sovereignty. All sovereign rights unite in the General forhie. go u v er n e r as commissioner of the Führer for the total 1 4/12.40. Administration of this side country of the Empire. The highest administrative head is the "Government of the General Government" with a State Secretary, a higher 4 and police leader, a Under-Secretary of State and department heads. The departments are of different nature. Some have tasks to perform according to the nature of a ministry, and some are justified by the development so far. A conversion with the aim of implementing the principle of the greatest simplicity and unity of the administration is under way. The country is divided into four districts with one governor each at the top. The districts are the second administrative authority, but in some respects they are more than government districts in the empire. According to the size and population the districts correspond to the large Reichsgauen. The districts are divided into ten district heads each with one district head at the top. Some larger cities are also, so to speak, Sr.S. X1.H- 1/40