English Translation

59 - 7 - of the legionary view. In large part 'has been achieved by this regulation nevertheless a reduction in the number of staff. Definitive figures are not yet available here, since the dismantling according to the regulation from 30.12.1940 to 31.12.1942 are carried out s011. According to German calculations, the staff body was overstaffed with about 100,000 persons. Some 13,000 persons were covered by the above-mentioned disembarkation decree, 8,000 persons over 55 years were retired, and about 8 to 10,000 legionaries and other politically unsustainable elements have been dismantled or are still being dismantled. Thus, a remainder of 68,000 decommissioned officials remain. It was initially hoped that this goal could be achieved by reducing younger, unfit-for-work, but this hope would be in vain as a result of the extraordinary increase in all public works, so that the Czech civil servants could be replaced further. A number of tasks will be achieved by natural departure and by the still valid recruitment and promotion ban on public servants, but this is only a gradual and not instantaneous process. The political cleansing regulations, which have mainly led to the elimination of Jewish officials, as well as the restoration of at least a semi-portable professional officialship and the removal of Jewish hybrids and Jewish depriveds, have become less apparent in numbers. On the initiative of v•n 44-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, the Freemasons were also eliminated to the extent that they were higher. This was a natural measure with regard to the annexation to the Reich, which undoubtedly led to a certain cleansing of the Czech civil servants' apparatus.