English Translation

12 5 - Ammunition as the only Reich Minister has direct powers also for the Protectorate. The same is likely to apply to the General Plenipotentiary for Armament Tasks in the Four=Year Plan (Reichsminister Speer) appointed with the decree of the Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan of 1 March 1942 - VP 4366/42. The head of the Reichsgruppe Jndustrie, Director General Z a n g e n , was appointed by the Reich Minister for Armament and Ammunition and by the Minister for Economic Affairs to carry out the command of the leader to simplify and increase the performance of arms production. Although the mandate given in December 1994 is based on the concentration of the economy and overall rationalization, it is our view that the limits of the Protectorate are still in place. On the other hand, the implementation of the rationalization in the sector of the main committee "werepower equipment" for the territory of the Pro= tectorate Director General K u c h i n k a in Witkowitz was directly entrusted by the Reichsminister für Armament und Ammunition. It is not yet to be overlooked and could not be clarified yesterday with State Secretary S c h u l z e - F i l t z whether and to what extent the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition intends to authorize the main committees and special committees which he has set up to issue direct instructions to the protectorate economy and to which extent the Imperial Minister intends to direct the arms= orders for the entire territory of the Great German Reich completely centrally. IV. The independence of the Reichsprotektor and of the departments subordinate to it is not limited in the field of the more in-depth regulation of the food economy and in the fields which are processed by the representatives of the Imperial Protector for the production of machinery, for the motor vehicle industry and for the construction of wood. This is where agreement is reached on a case-by-case basis among formal equals.