English Translation

14a 6. On his return from his military service in December 1 940, the circuit leader made serious accusations to me because - after the clear confirmation of the commander of the security police - the district authority had apparently taken the authority to issue a transfer; by this measure the authority of the local group leader was decisive. In any case, the local group leader - I assume, without agreement of the Oberlandrat in Proßnits - had, until then, been aware of these undue procedures - until now - put a certificate of safety on a transfer certificate, I believe, for a fee, without which the district authority in no case issued the transfer certificate even to protectors. I tried in vain to convince the circuit leader of the necessity of my action and the inadmissibility and political undesirableness of the behaviour of the local group leader. (b) The local group leader in Leipnik considers the Regierungskommissar to be an instrument under his authority and cannot be convinced of the self-responsibility and independence of the German administrative officer 24178, so that even there there there are still serious conflicts, because a rectification of the circle leader is not to be expected. In the long run, the local group leader will not allow himself to stay for hours in the service of the government commissioner and also attend the reception of the Czechs. (0 Particularly inconvenient conditions continue to be found in Prerau, where the officials of the Crts group interfere in the most impossible forms in administrative matters, which openly attack the decision-making decisions of the Reicheprotector, force a Czech to hire a German who is not needed, nor do serious work, but