STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1604, sig. 109-4/1359 (damaged)

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47 2 4.4 the Reichsprotektor did not provide any new legal basis, but considered its incorporation as a necessary but at least unpleasant intervention in autonomy. The interim leadership therefore had to gain one position after another in a tough small war, in order to give the German tasks of overweight in addition to the handling of the Czech soil reform tasks, so that soon next to the Czech apparatus of the old soil reform, the German interim leadership in a merely serve the German interests- the demarcated scope of tasks took place. The conditions of the ground office in Prague are very different compared to the ground offices built in the recovered Ostgauen, which shows the difference that the ground department in Prague still has about 50 Czech officials and employees and about 300 German employees. So far, the work of the Land Office has been made more difficult by the fact that, in the first months after the establishment of the German Kom- missarische Leitung (by himself, as well as by the office of the Reichsprotector), the position was taken that the presiding authority was a Czech authority which could only illegally promote German interests under this cover.\This is a completely deviating position, since the setting up of a German Kommissarische Unterwalt has never been illegal, it was initially based on the political tasks of restoring a proper administration and later on from the law of the Imperial Protector. However, it has been repeatedly tried to push the Land Office down into this subordinate position. As long as the commissary leadership of the Land Authority was based on the Racial and Settlement Headquarters SS, it found for its political endeavours an uncompromising political party.