English Translation

34 -6- I first admit that, for example, the Gestapo, which has to carry out special tasks and generally does not use forces of the uniformed police for the execution of its orders, has to take up a special position. The activities of the Gestapo are not disturbing at all on the administrative apparatus, so that we can take care of them when considering the current turmoil in the police apparatus. The first grafting on the local police apparatus was carried out by §§ l0 - l4 of the VO on the construction of the administration and the German security police in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from September 1, 1939 Reg.Bl.I S.l68l. These provisions took over the secret state police and parts of the criminal police, the latter as far as it was necessary by the introduction of the German criminal justice system, into the rich administration.The German departments subordinated to the Reich Protector and the authorities of the Protectorate had to comply with the instructions of the state police authorities, the offices of the protectorate but also with the orders of the other departments of the secret State police in political-police matters. In addition, the German criminal police must exercise the professional supervision over the criminal police of the Protectorate, insofar as the joint investigations require. In this context, the police authorities of the protectorate must comply with the professional instructions of the German crime police. This organization of the German police in the protectorate was a political necessity in view of the conditions in the administration /purely Czech interior ministry, Czech band presidents and Czech district heads/ and must be considered as such against other administrative technical disadvantages. From the very beginning, the individual police saved money on both the Reich sector and the Protectorate sector, as the German police also had police regiments in the protectorate to carry out certain tasks. German gendarmerie posts were also attached to the individual Oberlandrats. Such a police organisation must naturally be difficult to carry out, since, for example, a Czech police guard, who, for instance, sifts two passersby in the crowd on the street, considers one to the other with terms that would be offensive to Germanism, must only long-term check to what extent his competence to intervene is sufficient. the other police department he has to use to assist. For these reasons, in a very small number of cases, there has been no intervention by the Pro- tectorate police officer at all and the individuals could escape unchecked. Yes, it has to be stated here with some Bedau- ern that on the German side there was a complete lack of discipline, since it was somehow the view that the protectorate policeman had no right to maintain public peace, order and security vis-à-vis members of the Reich.