STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 668, sig. 109-4/416

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English Translation

The fact that the commissioner for the four-year plan applies the same right of instruction to the Reichsprotektor, which he is entitled to with respect to the supreme Reich authorities according to the Führer Ordinances of 18 October - S - to - L o -, is, however, clearly apparent from his order of 27 October, referred to in I, 2 below. The officer responsible for the four-year plan has now moved on to transfer his right of instruction to other central departments with regard to the Protectorate and thus to subordinate the departments to them. This is currently the case for the following areas: 1. In the field of coal, the commissioner for the four-year = plan of an order of the leader accordingly by decree of 10 January 1942 - VP 319/42 - has the Reichsbeauftragter für die od e d r od director Paul P 1 e i g e r , at the same time as the Reich's commissioner for coal and others. for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and for this purpose also granted him for the local area a full right of instruction over the "carriers and organs of the coal industry". Decisions of fundamental importance should be taken by the Reichsbeauftragter after consultation with the German heads of the individual territorial administrations. 2. In the field of labor and wage policy, the officer responsible for the four-year plan, by an order of 27 March 1942 to implement the order of the Führer of a General Plenipotentiary for labor operations of 21 March 1942 - RGBl.I p.180 - has appointed Gauleiter S a u c k e l to carry out his duties, among others. "the instruction given to him by the Führer=