English Translation

30 -5- many years. v. The question now arises in which stáats legal form this country should be preserved during the transitional period which I value for at least two generations, and how it should be managed. According to the above, it must be assumed that we have to reckon with the presence of about 7 million Czechs who have settled close to us. For the state-law form of the protectorate for the Czech rest of the country, its time was primarily a matter of foreign policy. However, this form has proved to be effective both internally and administratively after the experiences collected in almost 1 1/2 years. Therefore, there is no reason in itself to abandon it. For the administration of the Bohemian-Moravian area only with German officials we lack the people. For every man of state and practically thinking at the same time, it is therefore obvious that it is easiest to let these Czechs manage themselves within the framework of the Great German Empire and in agreement with their goals, thus allowing them to have their own administrative organization and to give them the administrative autonomy even within the aforementioned limits. This administration, which is based on the majority of the population, will succeed best in ensuring calm and order, and thus the smooth separation of daily living in this room. A German administration constructed according to the type of the Reichsgaue could only be disruptive, because it is too easily tempted to use the appropriate administrative methods of the Alteiche here and because it - in all its kind - is far too intense, in order not to cause unnecessary resistance. The German administration must, in future, continue to limit itself to the -6-