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

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57 - 11 - to take over foreign lands, it had to pay first on the administrative territory of Lehrgekd. The Peamte, coming from the Old Reich, saw at first only a management problem and could not understand for a long time that in this area everything is a political problem, it cost me two years of work, to make clear to my authority that with a relatively small but well-trained civil servant body we want to fill all the important key positions in the upper Kxrxx autonomous administrative authorities, but we do not want to do all the small things ourselves and always want to manage them. Only today in the German Ministry of State has it become clear to all my officials Jnantoumo that we have to give instructions, lead mepuofe and govern. The originally bloated authority of the Reich Protector has now become or is on the way to become a power instrument. The fallen B-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Hexdrich has clearly recognized this problem after a short period of his work and initiated the administrative reform and established it by law. This act of Heydrich is of extraordinary political importance and in the future will be able to serve the empire in other areas with foreign peoples in some ways as a pattern and an example. By the decree of the Führer of 20 August 1993 the German leadership position in the Protectorate is clarified and a so far often harmful dualism between Reichsprotector and State Secretary removed. By this decree the Keichsprotecttor is representative of the V u Pentettenat