STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1679, sig. 109-4/1434

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3a - 4 - of the Herr Reichsprotektor even in the least, or even the possibility of an intervention would have had. The budget set up by me was then forwarded to the authority of the Lord Reichsprotector, where he remained for 8 weeks. At the end of April ministerial councillor H a n s.e l. asked by the authority of the Reichsprotektor, however, to include still some personal Winches, which the Rector S a u r e had referred to beyond the established guidelines; they concerned the increase and raising of the posts in the Rector's Office and were by no means "necessarily necessary", but absolutely superfluous and flowed only out of the prestige need of the Rector Saure; nevertheless, I still accepted them for the sake of peace. On its own initiative, the authority of the Reichsprotektor added a number of assistant positions in the Faculty of Philosophy of the German Karls University to the draft budget. And with these facts, I ask you to compare the sentence again, "the office of the Reich Protector has often had to intervene in order to get me to include the absolutely necessary personnel and Sachwinsche in the draft budget". 6) It is further stated in the letter of 9.2.1942 that it would have been more correct if I had put forward the necessary Winsche from the office of the Reichsprotektor. But what else should I have done beyond the presentation of the budget? All the requests, which were directed to Berlin, have anyway passed. the authority of the Lord Reichsprotector. In addition, the authority of the Lord Reichsprotector would have had little use, for I have experienced very little promotion of my duties by the Lord Imperial Protector's authority, but I have had infinite delay-over-time inhibitions and