Letter to the Reich ministers on Hitler's decree that his deputy, Hess, has a ministerial role in the preparation of laws and decrees concerning the individual states (including Austria)

The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
Berlin W.8. 12 April 1938
Wilhelmstrasse 78.
Rk. 7363 B.
Please quote this ref. No. on all future correspondence.
To the Reich Ministers.
In a decree of the Fuehrer dated 27/7/1934—Rk. 6798—and supplementary decree reported in my letter dated 6 April, 1935 —Rk. 2749—a copy of which I enclose, the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor has ordered that the Deputy of the Fuehrer, Reich Minister Hess, will occupy the position of a participating Reich Minister as far as the preparation of drafts of laws and decrees, including all instructions about their being put into effect and instructions about their being carried out, and as far as they are published in the Reich Law Gazette, is concerned.
By order of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor I have the honor to inform you of a further supplementary decree of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor:
The Deputy of the Fuehrer will also have participation where the Reich Ministers give their agreement to State Laws [Landesgesetzen] and legislative ordinances of States under para. 3 of the first decree concerning reconstruction of the Reich of Feb 2nd 1934 (Reich Law Gazette, I, 81). Where the Reich Ministers have already, at an earlier date, been engaged in the preparation of such laws or legislative ordinances, or have participated in such preparation, the Deputy of the Fuehrer likewise becomes participating Reich Minister. Laws and legislative decrees of the Austrian State [des Landes Oesterreich] are equally affected hereby.
(Sgd)
Dr. LAMMERS
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