English Translation

Prtrai 880 1 Der Oberlandrat Zlin,den_ 20.November 1941. 0V Telephon Nr. 401=406 Nr. 473 gRs. It was asked to give this Afrenze and the secret Reicsjade object in further letters. To the Lord Deputy Reich Protector SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police eeecerco Pers. Secretariat H e y d r i c h o.V.i.A. 21.NOV.41.Rs in P r a g . Anl. Rpr. 36 Boarb.B.d.P. Subject : Political situation report for November. The abolition of the department of the Reichsprotector for the Land of Moravia in the meantime gives reason to look again at the local administrative system as an official of the German foreign service in the Protectorate. The German administration in the Protectorate was drawn up as a purely supervisory administration from the beginning out of two considerations. One part had to be made a con cession to the protectorate idea, on the other hand, shortly before the beginning of a great war the practical impossibility to take over the administration in all branches directly. Two-fellos meant the department for the Land of Moravia an anomaly in the German supervisory administration counting two instances. It took account, at best, of the fact that conditions in the Land of Moravia require special treatment in various directions.The most important way of managing German power in the Protectorate was the right of instruction enshrined in the constitution, which, of course, was intended to be applied solely against a Czech bureaucracy. The right of instruction was necessary, as it was precisely the paragraph-struck old and oldest laws of the Czech bureaucracy that gave the possibility of passive resistance in the happiest form.