English Translation

67 areas of social, economic and cultural life in the Protectorate and have brought in many ways adaptation of the state prevailing in the old empire. (143) The exercise of its authorisation to legislation has been subject to strict supervision of the Reich Protector since the first days of the occupation. They should have been in agreement with the political, military and economic interests of the empire, limited only to the internal affairs of the Protectorate and the inadmissibility of autonomy where the Empire issues its own regulations or takes over the entire administrative sectors into its own administration. (144) The Protector in this respect always required a consistent fulfilment of the government's information duty to himself. This was served in particular by the regular submission of protocols from its meetings, in this context the protector often criticized the evil of spreading reports on proposals not yet approved by the press and radio. By letter dated 13. In September 1939 he even determined that legislation and administrative measures of major importance should be submitted to him, issued not only by the government but also by ministries or other administrative offices responsible for the entire territory of the Protectorate. These requirements were gradually extended, so that it was soon necessary to submit to the Reich's PRC for approval: government regulations, as well as its resolutions, ministries' decrees, administrative regulations, general guidelines, circulars, normals, general revenues and all administrative measures of a general nature which are not merely concerned with the handling of a specific case. In addition, it also gave a direct order to the Government on a request for legal regulation, whose possible non-compliance was sanctioned by the imposition of complaints (Rügen). (145) Intense regulatory activities were also developed by individual ministries, even though they might have been entrusted with them under the Constitutional Act on the basis of the authorisation contained in the Government Regulation (i.e. in the secondary regulation) only a closer adjustment of certain elements. (146) Officials worked under close supervision of the agents at the disposal of the Reich's headquarters of Berlin. Their instructions, usually given in the form of orders, were often forced to do so in turn and without any possibility of any appeal. Those who faced this ruthless pressure were not only deprived of office, but also often arrested.