English Translation

Processing is carried out if this is necessary for reasons of war or if individual questions of daily business transactions become absolutely necessary. 3) The processing of the not mentioned areas of responsibility must first continue. The working method must be adapted according to form and content, without bureaucratic inhibitions, to the requirements of war. In any case, the question of the importance of war and imperative necessity must be posed and the sharpest yardstick must be set. I reserve the right to call for further restrictions and to classify restricted areas of responsibility among the excluded. III. When carrying out these orders, the following must be observed: 1.) If, for reasons of war, planning, laws and regulations or new or reorganizations are necessary - even if they are not explicitly mentioned in the compilation - then my decision must be sought before the preparatory work is initiated in each individual case. If the war-important measures are expressly excluded for the tasks described as missing, my consent is not required in individual cases, except for basic measures. 2.) All agents are and remain responsible to their departmental and departmental heads and to me for keeping the Führer's Decree and its implementing provisions, as well as for my present orders. I do not have to relinquish this responsibility, expressly apart from the use of a general representative to check the importance of the war of the administrative tasks still carried out. I expect the expected restrictions to be met by strict compliance with my orders from the administrative apparatus and that my confidence in the self-responsibility of my staff proves to be fully justified. 3.) Under no circumstances should the basic stop of planning, legislative and organisational measures be avoided by using them as alleged simplification measures.