English Translation

40005 V - 2 time is achievable, só must take the principle that the distance from the service is to be carried out with the continuation of a legionnaire, insofar as non-service reasons make it absolutely necessary to leave the service. The decision should not be based on the incomplete and often incorrect justifications of the protectorate authorities, but on the group and other services of the Reich, which are responsible for the administration of the Protectorate, which must examine the need for further examination more strictly than before. First of all, it must be taken into account that the autonomous civil servants' apparatus had been translated so far and that it did not require any assignments to the Wehrmacht and up to now also to be deployed in other areas - in contrast to the German administration, which nevertheless manages the tasks that were still increased by the war. In particular, legionaries may remain in active service only if nothing disadvantageous has been found against them by the SD. In the light of these circumstances, it will be possible to apply a milder scale to the lower categories of service where retirements on a larger scale will not always be possible for the service to be impaired when deciding on further leave, taking into account social conditions in individual cases. In no case, however, can it be tolerated that legionaries continue to work in highlighted public service posts. Since they usually came into higher positions on the basis of their legionaries and can be replaced more easily by other, perhaps even more appropriate, officials, all legionnaires, as far as they were former active military personnel, must be removed from the public service. I therefore ask, as far as your business is concerned, to instruct the Protectorate Administration, with immediate effect, all senior civil servants' legions and, to the extent that they are not yet covered, to place all legionaries who were former active military personnel in permanent retirement, provided that they have reached the retirement age limit. An exception for technicians is only to be allowed to: