English Translation

National Socialist German Workers' Party Gauleitung Sudetenland Order No. 4 GAUORGANIZATIONSAMT Reichenberg, 4 December 1942. 4 D 1942 326/9L Special order of the Gauorganisationsamt. Subject: Behaviour of German nationals towards the autonomous authorities in the Protectorate. The legal order existing today in the countries of Bohemia and Moravia is derived from the sovereignty of the Reich, it is designed and directed by the responsible institutions of the imperial authority. The administrative implementation and handling of legal provisions is left to large-scale bodies of Czech ethnicity for understandable reasons, with the implementation of the administrative reform of the autonomous authorities with German civil servants providing a particular guarantee that the interests of the region will be duly respected in the conduct of the proceedings and in the measures taken by the autonomous public authorities. It is therefore self-evident that all official regulations and measures, regardless of the places from which they come, are strictly followed by the German people. Under no circumstances can it be tolerated that German people refuse to comply with the orders of autonomous authorities issued under the statutory provisions. It is still the case that, for example, members of the police and the gendarmerie, as well as officials of public transport services,