English Translation

bi Vice-President of Moravia Dr. Karl Schwabe Brünn, 10 December 1943. 4 Standartenführer To the President of the Ministry of the Interior Mr. Oberlandrat Freihernn v. Watter in P r a g Dear Mr. von Watter ! I was pleased to note that you shared the fears of an imminent administrative chaos in the police sector and that you have turned your attention to the removal of the political dangers that threaten it. Perhaps in my capacity as Vice-President of the Land of Moravia and as a thorough connoisseur of the local area, I am called to share my experience in this area and to present proposals to avert this danger. In addition, as a result of the work of the administration in general and of the police administration in particular, I knew both in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and later during the existence of the former Tychechoslovak Republic from theory and practice, and that the development and establishment of the Protectorate did not go unnoticed by me as police director and subsequent president of the state vitreous. Even if a person who is not on the ground here will approach the solution to this problem with the best of his abilities and if he pursues the theoretical clarification of the shortcomings of legal development, he will lack the practical experience in the development of the police system in the countries of Bohemia and Moravia. I have therefore allowed myself to use the time from which the basic organization of administration in general and the police administration in particular comes, in order to better understand the development in the area of police administration. In the following, I believe that I can prove that the much discussed problem of the police is actually not a problem at all, but that the difficulties have arisen from inorganic grafts on an organism that is quite healthy and viable. Nor can I conceal my honest condemnation that the dreaded chaos must be eliminated with one blow in such a way that these institutions, which have been grafted on here, are either eliminated or built in such that they do not paralyze the healthy organism. The first mistake is the reference to the police situation in the Old Reich. All the considerations about the reorganization of our police are repeated with the corresponding forms of organization of the