Státní tajemník u říšského protektora v Čechách a na Moravě, Praha

The documents in the fonds can be divided into several main thematic groups. There are files related to: 1) the protectoral state administrative, 2) matters of SS and wehrmacht (call-up papers of soldiers), 3) activities of Czechoslovak home and foreign resistance, 4) reports from the investigation of the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and worshipping his memory, 5) documents from Reich labor service (Reichsarbeitsdienst, RAD), 6) matters of Protectorate press censorship, 7) personal and family matters of K. H. Frank. There are also Jewish related documents - mostly concerning Aryanization of Jewish property. The Office of the State Secretary was a part of the Office of the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. The State Secretary was till 1942 deputy of the Reichsprotector in the office and later in 1943 (after the reorganization of the Office of the Reichsprotector) it became the most powerful authority in the Protectorate Czech and Moravia, known as German State Minister. The State Secretary - Karl Herman Frank - was also in the position of Senior commander of SS and police, so under his competences also fell offices of the commander of Ordnungspolizei (Riot police), commander of Sicherheitspolizei (Security police) and commander of Sicherheitsdienst (Security service). The Finding Aids n. 1703 of the National Archives is available in the study room or online on: http://badatelna.eu/fond/959/