English Translation

28 - 12 - I would now like to tell you something about the historical course of events and the methods of our politics. Since the young National Socialist Empire had for the first time to take over the leadership and government of a foreign people and country, it had to pay teaching money in the administrative areas. The official from the Old Reich saw at first in the Protectorate only an administrative problem and could not understand for a long time that in this area everything is a political problem. It took me several years of work to make it clear to my authority that, with a relatively small but well-trained civil servant body, we have to occupy all the important key positions in the upper autonomous administrative authorities, but we must be careful to do all the small things ourselves and always want to manage them. Only today, in the German State Ministry, has it become clear to all my officials that we have to give, guide and govern instructions to the autonomous authorities. The originally bloated authority of the Reichsprotektor has now become a real management instrument or is on the way to becoming it. The fallen W-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich clearly recognized this problem after a short time of his work and initiated the administrative reform and established it by law. This act Hey-drich's is of extraordinary political importance and will serve as a model and example in the future/the Reich/in other areas with foreign popularism/in some respects. By the decree of the