English Translation

24 If the Gestapo had around 800 members in the Czech lands in 1939, their number rose to 1500 by 1941. From them, in August 1941 it worked in the Brno office of 638 and in Prague 812. It was in its time the largest state police office ever, and the ratio between the members of the gestapo and the population was evaluated by the density of state police supervision in Bohemia and Moravia ... The German administrative apparatus in the Protectorate was too extensive compared with other Germans occupied and managed territories such as part of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark. (33) However, this particular anomaly had a logical explanation compared to other occupied countries. A career in the Protectorate was also attracted by the fact that, according to the Nazi plans, there should not have been an occupation administration in the true sense of the word, i.e. the administration of a foreign defeated country, but the Reich territory, where domestic masters are and will remain Germans. Due to the vastness of the German administration, its workers began gradually, whether thoughtfully or naturally, to "flush" even to so-called. The autonomous authorities, including the administration of ministries and government, were now not with the adjective of "Czech" but only "protectorate" as the Nazis requested. The autonomous bodies led by German were then referred to as a German-led official post. At the end of 1940 the Reich Protector prolonged the ordering power of the government (34), which until now issued regulations on the basis of Czechoslovakos. The Constitutional Act of 1938 and thus formally interrupted the normalising continuity with the Czech-Slovak Republic. This, together with the Germanisation of the autonomous protectorate administration, created the appropriate conditions for Heydrich's administrative reform, which was to make the occupation authorities' activities in the territory of the Protectorate more effective according to the principle of less manageable. In practice, it brought almost complete liquidation not only of the existing administrative double-trackness, but also of the protectorate autonomy at all, when the principal executors of the will of the occupiers became paradoxically so-called. Autonomous authorities, which, according to the original ideas of the occupying power, were able to live on the edge of the protectorate action in the shadow of the powers of the Reich Protector or other German authorities, just as an alibi of Nazi aggression. Germanized autonomous authorities became a direct executor of the empire's will, with an apt testament "from the command of the Empire" (im Auftrage des Reichs).