English Translation

- 5 - within the autonomous administration, at any rate, was taken as a strengthening of the German influence. The Czech authorities were under stronger control than was possible with the previous double-track of the administration. In this generally tense and expected transition period, a first indeterminate and then more precise message of a postponement of all organizational measures came. As various members of the Oberlandratsamt Tabor of personalities from the office of the Reichsprotector have been explained, the final decision is to be postponed beyond the reorganization and at present lies at a higher place than the Reich's protector himself. This delay had become necessary because the planned reorganization of one of its most important objectives, namely the exemption of German officials for the Wehrmacht, had not been achieved. The result of this new news with the German authorities was paralyzing this time. Now nobody knows what it is anymore. It has had a very adverse effect on the service of all public authorities, and the view will now be expressed many times, so that it will be "continued" again. For all the reasons set out above, it can be stressed that the delay in the decision for the entire service within the purely German responsibilities has had a rather adverse effect as well as in the appearance of the protectorate authorities. If the long postponement of all measures with the Czech Antern could give the impression that the Germans in Organisaton's questions were not such masters, as one often put it, then, should the decision ever be abrogated, this will have an effect as a great loss of prestige of the German authorities. It has not yet become known whether the Czechs have already been aware of this delay in the intended measures. The establishment of an early decision in the sense of a planned and portable b.w.