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6or 2 Dec. 1941 REICSMINISTER BERLIN W8, DEN DR. ING. FRITZ TODT PARISER PLATZ 3 · RUF 11 64 81 12129F ab Herrn 4-Obergruppenführer H e y d r i c h V Berlin SW ll Prinz-Albrecht-Str. 8 $ Betr.: Technische Verwaltungen des Reichsprotektors. Dear party comrade Heydrich ! I am told that there is an intention to divide the individual technical administrations into protectorates even further than before and thus to cut up the technical administrations. This would lead to a development in the Protectorate, which would be contrary to what I have finally made clear with the Minister of the Interior after six years of effort, namely the creation of an efficient technical administration for the individual territories of the Reich or the independent territories. The resolution I have been working on for the past six years is based on repeated statements and instructions from the Führer, who wants to know that the technical administrations are freed from the legal regime, and I know that this direction which I represent is being reworked by the Under-Secretary of State, B & B, for example, and that I think it is right that we should discuss it here. What I am running as head of the Chief Office of Technology is the creation of efficient technical administrations, which are, of course, fully under the authority of the Reich Protector. I would also like to inform you that all the recently formed governments 24814818