English Translation

- 3 3 school matters. 4) The aim is not to encourage the establishment of German higher education institutions as it would have been necessary; this is such a general statement that it should be further developed before it can be commented on. What is "necessary" to build up is also a question of discretion about which the Ministry of Education and Finance of the Reich,/ind Reichsprotector, may and indeed have been different. The curator, who is neither the Reich's Minister of Education nor the Minister of Finance nor the Reichspro- tector, could only keep himself within the framework which had been drawn to him by the REM. decree of 30 March 1940. However, in this context, I claim to have promoted the construction of the universities as far as it was possible in the given difficult circumstances. The majority of professors, if asked, will confirm this; the false testimony of sour and some other habitual staves and jntrigants really do not weigh. 5) The letter vöm 9.2.1942 further states that "the office of the Reichsprotektor has had to intervene many times in order to allow me to include the absolutely necessary personal and substantive wishes in the draft budget". Here only the new requirements of the budget 194l can be meant, for the budget 1940 has been drawn up in the authority of the Lord Reichsprotector himself. On 24, 25, 26 and 27 March 1941, Dr. Führer of the Reich Ministry of Education in my office with me, the Rectors and the Deans pre-empted all new demands for the Héushalt l94l. In the light of the directives put forward in this respect, I have completed draft budget 1994l immediately and in great haste - the draft budget should already be in Berlin in the first days of April - without the authority having to give its opinion.