The Reich government wanted to give this task to the state railway.

Details on this matter, as well as the balancing of costs between the Reich government and the individual states, will be determined by law.

Through this strategy, 40 million bank and investment accounts were quietly converted into war bonds, providing the Reich government with a continuous supply of money.

Articles 2 and 3 allowed the Reich government to assume powers normally reserved for the federal states.

Less than a year later, the Reich government took it over, but it was sold again when the affair came to light.

Jt is therefore recommended that the Reich government should abstain from declaring a state of emergency.

Ciano replied that he did not think the Reich government would accept this condition.

In view of the imminent danger of civil war, the Reich government decided to comply with this appeal.

Flensburg was thereby, for a few weeks, the seat of the last Third Reich government.

In order not to evoke unease among the general German population, the Reich government preferred to hide its activities.