STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1600, sig. 109-4/1354 (damaged)

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The Reicksprstektor 42 in Bohemia and Moravia No. I_1a_-1305/762_g Prac,Cen 29.October 1942 An? 8 the adjutation of the Stellv, Reichsprotektor b the office of the Secretary of State iC the Inspector General of the Administration d the Divisions I - IV e the Central Administration for the Groups g the Commander of the Order Police h the Commander in the Security Police 5 the Upper Land Councils - Inspectors of the Imperial Protector - X the Curator of the German Academic Universities in Prague: CL the Curator of the Deütschen Technische Hochschule in Brno the Chief Finance President of the Oberlandesgericht President O the Attorney General (α the state presidents + Reichsbeauftragsverwaltung - (with overprints for the subordinate departments of the Reich's order administration ) sent to: 3 q) the Wehrmacht authorised representative at the Reichsprotektor and commander in the Weirkreis Böhmen and Mr Moravia -r) the commander of the Waffen-l S the liaison officer of the Arbeitsgauführer + the representative of the Federal Foreign Office and the party liaison body Subject: Behaviour of German Steat members towards autonomous authorities Nohimmar cases in which German nationals refuse to comply with the orders of autonomous authorities issued under the legal provisions and staff members. In particular, members of the police and gendarmerie, as well as staff of the transport facilities, are frequently the subject of unjustified ang-iffs and failures if they fulfil their duties vis-à-vis Germans. This kind of behaviour testifies to a lack of insight into the political necessities and gives me reason for the following statements: The legal order which exists today in Bohemia and Moravia is derived from the sovereignty of the Reich; its design is in all parts controlled by the responsible institutions of the imperial power. However, the lack of German people forces - especially in the