STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 150, sig. 109-2/52

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I will be supporting them at any time. I expect, however, that the speeches about the alleged declassification of these officials will end at last and in the near future. Every official has to fulfil his duty in the fifth year of war on the place on which he is placed. The further expansion of the Reichsauftragsverwaltung will also be carried out shortly against the resistance of politically untalented officials who do not want to understand the meaning of this measure. I wish, Mr. v.Watter, that the matter will be settled in the shortest possible time. The same applies to the decision on the admission of the middle civil servants and employees to the German State Ministry. The simplification of the autonomous administration must be promoted with all possible force. In any case, the autonomous management has to give away the far-reaching 2,0o staff for war-related productions promised me by Mr v.Watter. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say a few words about the relationship with the Ministers of the Protectorate, and I expect the gentlemen to be clearly and decisively opposed to this, but in the best possible ways. Observations of recent times give me cause to point out once again that the traffic with the Reichsprotektor is exclusively my business and that the transport with