English Translation

62 - 3 - able to think of the elimination of such duties, as long as the very large items of income mentioned are withheld from us. With the pleasure tax it is quite similar. Here the requests and attempts to completely abolish them do not tear off at all. In addition, the levy on those films that are not considered artistically and culturally valuable, has recently only shrunk completely catastrophically because of the fact that the biggest film marrs, who have nothing to do with art or culture, have declared artistically or culturally precious from film censorship in a quite incomprehensible way and are thus exempt from the tax on entertainment. We feel the impossibility of this condition not only in Prague - I have directed an in-depth input on the basis of concrete material to the office of the Reich Protector Department of Cultural Policy → but also in the other cities of the Protectorate area. This state of Prague can then be countered by the fact that the communities of the Reich have revenues that we do not know at all. I am thinking primarily of the citizens' tax. For the whole air protection system in the Reich, the Reich bears the main burden. Even from these few suggestions - I have just commissioned our study department to work out an in-depth study of the difference between the financial system and the tasks assigned to it in the Reich and in our country - it is apparent that the quickest remedy is necessary here if Prague is to fulfil the obligations that can reasonably be placed at a CpO million capital. In this context, I would like to point out that, for example, the city of Frankfurt a.M. spends 30 million kroner per year for cultural purposes, for which we have barely 3 million  Kroner, although Frankfurt has only half of the population of Prague. We have a firm intention not to let these questions of the Prague municipal finances rest and to bring them to a solution by means of fresh auditions with the Protectorate Government, but above all with the Office desvReichsprotektor, whose support I am already asking for today. In this context, the personnel policy of the Prague municipality, which has been observed over the last twenty years, must certainly be touched upon, because it is precisely through it that the administrative apparatus of the municipality has been fed with strength.