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85 THE REICAS PROTECTOR in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, 19 June 1st No. Z 365/40 An a/ the Head of Division I and II, b/ all groups /including Moravia/ c/ the Lord Oberlandrate, d/ the Commander of the Order Police, e/ the Commandant of the Security Police. Copy. THE REICHSMINISTER OF THE INNER I Ö 791/40 m.765 Berlin,de 1102 To the Supreme Reich Authorities. Subject: Traffic with the authorities of the Reichsstatthalter in the East Mark, the Sudetengau and the integrated eastern regions. In recent times, there have been more cases in which senior Reich authorities have sent letters directly to individual departments of the authorities of the Reichsstatthalter, or in which these departments have sent separate copies of the letters addressed to the Reichers. In many cases, however, this direct traffic is not limited to this, but is dealt with with with individual departments of subject areas, for whose processing, such as the personnel, the relevant department is not at all responsible. On the other hand, I should like to point out that the unity of the administration, which is urgently to be sought, does not only pose an external threat, but is also very much organically endangered and disturbed. Such a procedure not only bypasses the head of the authority, but also gives the impression that the department in question is a special authority not under the Reichsstaat. I urge, therefore, that the principles given by the uniform structure of the authorities in the middle stage of the Reichsstatthalter be observed and that decrees of the kind in question be sent exclusively to the Reich's governors. On behalf of Reinhard Certified: Message to: Msu f/ the office of Mr. Rogierungssärek. Reichsprotectors, office of the Secretary of State, $\D 1}$ h/ the Office of the Under-State Secretary, i/ the representative of the Wehrmacht.