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Copy! Dr.1/.1 Letter from: 19.12.1941 Mr.: Hei B Subject: Conversation with Ministerial Councillor Dr. K r i e s e In order to the current confusion of the legal provisions in force in the Protectorate (Reichsrecht, Reichs-ministerialverordnungen, Ordnung des Reichsprotektors, Ordinances of the Protectorates Government, old Czechoslovak zw. Dr. Kriese plans to publish a collection work, which in a continuously supplementable loose paper edition collects these various legal provisions clearly. In order not to make the scope of the work appear superfluous, it should be assumed that the legislation issued since March l939 and the previous legal provisions still in force concerning the subject matter are referred to only to the extent necessary to understand the subject-matter in question. The work should not therefore be a code of laws and regulations which are more valid, but only a guide. The work is to be processed by the department Dr. Mr Krieses. — (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by thanking the President-in-Office of the Council for his excellent report. Since the purchaser of this work is not only the entire service of the Reich and the Protectorate government, but also the entire economy in question, the minimum purchase order is carefully estimated at 4,000 copies. The final start of the work is made dependent on the approval of the plan by the Secretary of State. In the course of the discussion, the language also came to the takeover of the "Prager Archive" by Volk und Reich Verlag, which was intended to transform it into a magazine for the law (especially commercial law) of the entire southeast. Ministerial Councillor Kriese was very interested in this company and also gladly agreed to participate in an interview planned for the middle of January in Prague in the People's and the Reich publishing house. As an important employee of this magazine, he called above all Professor K 1 a u s i g , by the German Charles University in Prague.