STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 82, sig. 109-1/88

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-3- special in the economic and nutritional field, in principle serve the autonomous administrative apparatus and the existing organizations, which are converted accordingly by the protectorate government for the fulfilment of the tasks put by the Reich under circumstances. In order to make the Reichswill of the Protectorate government against merciless and uniform appearance, all tasks and instructions to the Protectorates government will have to be given by the Reich Protector. In order to enable a uniform management of all measures in the Protectorate, it will not be possible to combine the protectorate with adjacent canals and administrative districts into a single administrative or economic district. If necessary, supervisory bodies may also be attached to the Oberlandrats. All measures in this field must be taken only in close agreement with the Reich Minister of the Interior as a central office for the implementation of the decree of the Führer on the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In the case of regulations concerning the Protectorate, agreement must be reached with the representative of the Führer. Moreover, the Central Office will ensure the participation of the Deputy of the Leader in all important measures. The partner of the Reichs- protektor is also primarily the Minister of the Interior in all technical matters, the Reich Minister and head of the Imperial Chancellery for Personal and Budget Affairs, the Federal Foreign Office for Foreign Affairs. To the extent to which special measures are required by the Reich, the Führer himself, the Envoy for the four-year plan, and after the withdrawal of the administrative order given to the High Command of the Army, will have to be left to the Reich Minister and the Reichsführer i and head of the Deutsehen Pöli-zei, as far as measures for the maintenance of security and order are concerned. According to the explicit will of the Führer, the Reich Protector is the unified and sole representative of the leader and the Reich Government in the Protectorate. Apart from the Yehrmacht, therefore, there are no independent bodies of the Supreme Reich Authority, the Reiehsnährstand, the Orzanisation of the Industrial Virtue