English Translation

49 For the government's work, it was crucial that every Czech minister was given a designated German general representative empowered to handle all matters not only in the case of the Minister's busyness, as originally assumed, but under all circumstances, even without his knowledge. These officials, who also acted as senior officials in the dumping office, have now become real bosses at the decisive points of the perfectly mutilated self-governing administration. Thanks to them and the numerous staff of staff with whom they came to the Ministry, these institutions, the composition and structure approximated to the Nazi model, were declared German-led and acquired quite a character by the occupying authorities. (75) The reform of the local administration Reorganization at the highest level foreshadowed the second stage of the reform concerning the entire administration, which was to be carried out in the future as a management from the Order of the Empire (Reichsauftragsverwaltung RAV) under the regulation of Heydrich of 23 May 1942.(76) Its measures of the same day77 were also amended by the districts and seat of the oblandrats, so that they could effectively take over the oversight of the Land and District Offices through German officials. The process of glaišaltování local administration was completed by the government regulation no. 51/1944 Coll. on the administrative administration of municipalities from 26 February. (78) At the same time Heydrich limited the independence of the supreme councils of the Land (the Oberlandrats) by appointing each of them as senior SS leader and subjecting them to the relevant sub-ordination and reducing their number. In May 1942 the authorities remained only in Prague, Budějovice, Pilsen, Hradec Králové, Brno and Jihlava. Reformed Oberlandrati acted only as Inspectors of the Reich Protector, issued guidelines and supervised their implementation by Czech officials. It is worth noting that experts from the Office for Racial Affairs and Settlements, which were not affected by the reorganization of the Protectorary Administration, were working on all the remaining Oberlandrates. (79) The second phase of Heydrich's administrative reform in June 1942 removed the relative separation of the lower components of the autonomous and German administration so that part of the agenda