GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 989, sig. 110-9/5 (damaged)

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33 - 17 - national policy problems, but without forgetting them. Since January 1942 the autonomous government/after the arrest of the traitor Elias, then prime minister, has been reformed, its departments reduced, the so-called "cabin of concentration of forces" has been formed/and some new men have been taken into the government, a governmental instrument has also been created for the German leadership, with which/with optical maintenance of autonomy itself unpopular measures can be carried out. I would now like to tell you some of the guidelines and foundations of my policy in Bohemia and Moravia, the application of which is an essential contribution to the maintenance of peace and order in the Protectorate. He must not be released from responsibility, but must remain burdened with full responsibility. If he fails, he must be severely violated. 2. I have not allowed any Czech renewal movement to come up from the beginning. We have no interest in Czech National Socialism or fascism. Against the resistance of many places I had to enforce this my view, but recently it