English Translation

The Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia 11a - 6120 Prague, 23 March 1943 To all heads of departments and departments. Subject: Alignment of the Reich and autonomous administration to the total war I. The Führer, once again attached to the annex, issued a decree of 13 March 1943. On 1 January 1943, the Reichsminister and the head of the Reich Chancellery issued the decree, which was also annexed, for the conversion of the entire administration to the requirements of total war. In future, therefore, any administrative activity will have to assume that everything is unimportant, which will not contribute to the immediate strengthening of the front, to the maintenance of peace and order, to increasing the productivity of the war economy and to the vital supply of the civilian population. In addition, the German administration in the Bohemian-Moravian region has a special obligation to align the autonomous administration with the same objectives by means of appropriate control and monitoring. I expect that the right to lead and command is based on its own exemplary attitude. II. The accompanying compilation describes the circle of tasks that will be left out or restricted in the future and sets the standard for further administrative work. In detail, I order: 1) In the areas of tasks which are not mentioned and which are generally not considered to be important for war, any activity must be stopped immediately. 2) War-important sub-tasks of individual areas of work and assignments of ongoing business, which can only be partially shut down, are described as restrictive tasks. In these areas, therefore, only a