English Translation

32 active propaganda was assigned to each group by one propagandist unit (rota).In the designated day of the X was to be issued instructions on the use of members of the German minority as interpreters for military crews and other occupying bodies. (11) The professional activities and the further arrangement of the Protectorate were assigned to the holders of executive powers from the ranks of military commanders. civil administration (Zvilverwaltung) which worked as a direct part of the Reich administration. They had all the affairs of German administration and German state citizens in the territory of the Protectorate, for which it was the basis of German law. At the same time they supervised the administration of autonomous, i.e. district governor and municipal government. These components were therefore not meant to carry out the administration of the Czech population themselves, but only to supervise its performance by the existing authorities of state administration and self-government. The appointment of representatives of the so-called civil administration was prepared in advance by the Reich Minister of the Interior, who in this context 10. On March 1, 1939, the competent authorities of the Reichs ordered them to release specifically designated senior administrative officers for special use. (12) The authorities of this so-called civil administration (Zivilverwaltung) formed a three-stage system. At the level of both commanders of the military groups it was the heads of the civilian administration (Chef der Zivilverwaldung). At the lowest level, which was the only one that was not organizationally connected to any commanding place of German units, the Oberlandrati (Oberlandrat) stood. The apparatus of the occupation civil administration was built on a strict sub-ordination. Its joint task was primarily to supervise the activities of the autonomous authorities and to manage the lower articles of the occupying administration, and to this end its parts were given, depending on their position, possible organizational specifics and specific tasks as well as the corresponding powers: always control, regularly decision-making and at the top of the standardization. The broadest powers were given to the heads of the civil administration to issue generally binding regulations, to provide the appointed supervision and to make decisions on certain matters.