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54 - 7 - and Moravia directed and controlled by the people who are here under personal responsibility towards the Lord Reich Protector, whereby it is of course that all measures are carried out in consultation with the central organs of the empire and according to the same principles. Direct intervention of any organs are not eliminated. The correctness of this solution was fully confirmed by the previous development in Bohemia and Moravia. Not only the conversion of the liberalist economy to the authoritarianally controlled economy of the empire took place without complaint, but also the high demands of the war economy were met. Bohemia and Moravia made a very considerable contribution to equipping the victorious German army. Here, too, the conditions were much more difficult, as in the rest of the Reich, because the conversion had to take place in one turn, to some extent from today to tomorrow, and could not be organic, just as in other Reichsgebiet developed. The people, too, were neither politically prepared for the task, nor mentally prepared for all necessary changes, nor could even political understanding of the needs and needs of the empire be assumed. If, nevertheless, the work succeeded, it is to be thanked for the disciplined, exemplary and complete commitment of both the leadership and the German element in this area. However, the achievement can only be asserted if above all don dantoohe tn