STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 905, sig. 109-4/658

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National Socialist German Workers' Party Reichsleitung Party Liaison Office PragIV, 18.9.1944. in Bohemia and Moravia 11b Burg, Nordflügel Ortsruf 093. App. 3626-29 Fernruf 4781 Deuts An den Mr Deutsche Staatsminister für Böhmen und Mähren 4120.SER Zentralverwaltung Anl Prag IV Czernin-Palais. Unser Zeichnung: IC 44oo/Dr.K./Ko. Ihr Zeichnis: Objekt: Protektoratszulage. From the national political point of view, there is no need for any nourishing discussion that all German public servants in this area only fulfil one task. For this reason alone, it is no longer bearable that there is still a difference between immediate Reich officials and the German public officials in the Protectorate administration, which is particularly reflected by the fact that the Reich officials receive the Protectorates' allowance and the others not. The protectorate allowance, which has the character of an expenditure compensation, was introduced in this room at the time, taking into account the exceptional and the inflation conditions. If this allowance has a factual justification, it must also be granted or abolished to the German protectorate staff. 2 In any case, the solution to this question, which has been coming out for such a long time, cannot be postponed any further. The different treatment under the law of remuneration has not been hidden from the Czechs either. The elimination of this state is required in this difficult period of national politics. In this way, a further foundation is removed from the Czech Wühlarbeit, for it must not be ignored that the Czech mini-work with whisper propaganda also seeks to penetrate the German circles, for which it is precisely b.w. 481 8275 44