English Translation

51 The reduction of the Office of the Reich Protector's agenda The third phase of the administrative reform became the adaptation of the arrangement of the office of the new composition of the Protectorate ministries. The Germans did not proceed to this restructuring until the end of 1942. (85) The agenda, which was held by higher administrative authorities in the other Reich territories, was transferred to the authorities of Prague and Brno. This concerned in particular the status and family nutrition of German nationals, Reichshoes, administration of enemy property and tasks in the field of defence law. His staff was reduced to about 700 officials. Otherwise, the position of Reich Protector has not changed. 1943 completed less than a year-long period of fundamental system transformation of the public authority organization into a protectorate, there was a significant slimming and intervention of the occupying apparatus. ©The originally pompous office of the Reich Protector has now become a real tool of leadership or is going to become one. About April 1944 he declared to the representatives of the occupation administration in Karlovy Vítová Studánka K.H.Frank. (86) In conclusion, Heydrich's administrative reform meant almost complete liquidation not only of the existing administrative double-trackness but also of the protectorate autonomy at all. 2.1.5 The period from the beginning of 1943 to the end of the Protectorate of total war, German State Minister K.H.Frank, the dominant regulator of the protectorate Although Heydrich's reform brought practically ideal condition from a German point of view, did not solve one serious problem, which often damaged the functioning of the occupation apparatus. He was a de facto power dualism (87) between his two supreme representatives, i.e. between the Reich Protector and the Secretary of State