English Translation

- 3 the departmental officers in Deutechen State Ministry are a necessity - German leadership of the school sections - and that it is at the same time the simplest and most expedient solution. The elimination of this condition would not mean any simplification and no help in the current personnel shortage, but only a reduction and a reduction of the personnel shortage. I do not believe that any change would be politically acceptable either. Since German section heads were already seated in the Ministry of Education before the implementation of the Personalunion between Department III of the German State Ministry and Section Head, it would be seen as a sign of German weakness that this condition and an appointment of Czech section heads would be reversed. The Czechs would see this as an attempt to win them through special concessions and draw conclusions on the German position. The Czech people would even look at the various organizational abuses with great interest and would always seek to draw conclusions - partly correct, partly false'. I think it is the right thing to do now in the fifth year of the war to encourage as little as possible the organization and to leave everything as it is. Each administrative benefactor knows that even if they are intended to make simplifications, organisational changes will first involve difficulties and additional work, but the change of the existing organization in Section III and the Ministry of Education would not even bring simplifications in the future. It remains, of course, to the outside world that, in the course of the intrusion of the administration of the then Reich Protector into the autonomous ministries, different approaches were taken by the various departments, and that there are many forms between the complete penetration, as it is done in my sector, and the complete separation, as existing in the sectors of cultural policy and justice. These differences, however, were due to a sense of purpose and political reluctance, and one should by no means abandon the existing great elasticity of the current administration for the sake of a principle.