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48 were not allowed to consult collectively, the highest could meet their departmental college, but it was not to discuss whether the guidelines of the occupiers would be implemented but only the way they were implemented. The government was thus transformed into a mere ministerial body and ceased to function as a collective body. Each minister was now individually responsible for all the measures within his department. The government no longer created a policy at plenary meetings, and its chairman served as a mere coordinator among ministers. As a result, there have also been substantial changes in the sphere of the government's administrative agenda. Its current remit has passed directly to the relevant ministers, who were to continue to carry out it with the agreement of the Prime Minister, to the so-called. (71) The new government, appointed by President Hácha on 19 January 1942 according to the list prepared by Heydrich and confirmed by Berlin (72), should not have been the predecessor of the Czech Republic's Office for Complaints against the Empire, but the extended hand of the Reich Protector. It was made up of people either with Germans openly collaborating (like its chairman Jaroslav Krejčí or Minister of Education and later also the people's education Emanuel Moravec), or the occupations still committed (the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Adolf Hrubý suspected of attempting to bribe a German journalist), or from the German point of view of harmless experts (e.g. the Minister of the Interior and from 12. On March 1942 also Deputy Prime Minister Richard Bienert). Minister of Economy and Labour of this for the Nazis of the most important resort, he then became Head of the Group of Economy in the Retail Office of German Walter Bertsch. (73) In one of his secret speeches Heydrich eventually remarked that... The Czech Minister is not a minister in our sense, we know this well, he only fulfills the task ... I cannot take pleasure in issuing an order to continue in the Czech Government if it is to be or is not to be implemented. Czech Ministers can at most discuss how this order should be carried out, and to do so it is enough to make a statement about the Czech government and not about the Council, which would perhaps make demands. In addition, the entire cabinet was © since one of its members was forced by the German to use as a negotiating language German. © Those gentlemen will not be able to after (Parteigenosse) Bertschi want to learn Czech.© (74)