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

Page 18

English Translation

11 II. A limited right of instruction, to be exercised only in agreement with the Reich Protector or its services, has been granted to zen= trale departments of the Reich in the following areas: 1. In the field of commodity management in the commercial sector, the Reich Minister for Economic Affairs issued an order of 24 June in agreement of the Imperial Protector. In any case, these instructions have been given by the Reichs= by the hand of the representative of the Reich's Protector at the Supervision Office (Legationsrat a. D.). the ceiling) so that it can check whether the instructions in the protectorate can be carried out and reasonable. The recipient of the Reichsprotektor is expressly entitled to object; for, it is stated at the end of the above-mentioned decree of the Minister for Economic Affairs, "it must not remain out of the question that the Reich's protector as the representative of the leader and as the delegate of the imperial government is a truer of the interests of the Empire and bears the political responsibility for the conditions in the Protectorate". 2. In the field of energy and water management, the decree of the Führer and Reich Chancellor on the General Inspector for Was= ser and Energie of 29 July 1941 - RGBl.I p.467 - also applies to the Protectorate. However, according to IV of this decree, the General inspector (Reichsminister Speer) manages and orders the Energy and Water= Economics among others. for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in association with the authorities exercising the imperial power, here with the Imperial Protector. III. There is no doubt that the Reich Minister for Armament and