English Translation

23 Subject: Measures of war in the administration. I.) Weue situation by decree of l3.l.d.Js. The latter demands from the Austrian Reich authorities measures for the greatest possible exemption of cranes for the Wehrmacht; only the necessary skilled personnel must be kept when the strict wet staff is laid down. II.) After this further strongest unification and concentration in all areas inexorable. Certain positions - even internal help of autononen administration. - may be temporarily re-occupied or reduced. even decommissioning of some areas of work inevitable. Kernfrege: At what point is the use of German forces so important that it cannot be dispensed with even among the prevailing surroundings? III.) Main tasks of the German administration in the Frotektoret La 4.Kriegjahr: 1.) Security and order; 2.) Production. (a) The areas of work serving the maintenance of security and order remain essentially unaffected (beeps: police, criminal justice, propeganda, outposts of the department of interpretation, such as commissioners, teachers). The main areas of the industrial economy, agriculture, price formation, labour input and wage policy, including the unresolved transport enterprises (railway, poet). e) There are peripheral areas of conditional war importance (s.a. Housing, social security) and areas which cannot currently be recognized as war-related in the sirne of a German tax system (e.g. banking and savings banks).