English Translation

2t 41-Call. 29 April 1943. St.8.180/171/43. X 1.) To Mr. 29. IV. 1943 Reicheminister und Chef der Reichskanzlei Dr.Lammers, Berlin W 8 , Voßstraese 6. Dear Mr Reiche Minister! Mr Pfundtner, Secretary of State, informed me on the occasion of an interview on 19 April, concerning the re-establishment of Under-Secretary of State Dr.v.Burgsdorff in the Office of the Imperial Protector, that you, very venerable Mr Reicheminister, would occasionally receive Dr. v.Burgedorff. For your information, I would like to inform you of the following: The administrative forums initiated by -Obergruppenführer Heydrich have shifted a large part of the German administrative activity from the office of the Reichsprotektor to the autonomous departments. The development is conditioned by the fact that all the personnel capable of using war are withdrawn from the Office and made available to the Wehrmacht. This utraquistic form of administration, which has so far been expanded to the autonomous central authority, has proved to be successful and must be extended to the Autonomous Ministerial Office for a short or long time. v.Burgsdorff, who sees the development clearly and, to my knowledge, no longer considers it possible to use it as Under-Secretary of State in the much smaller authority, would like to be incorporated into the autonomous sector - on the basis of the