The article analyzes the main directions of the organization of administrative communication between the German and local authorities of the area of responsibility of the Temporary Military Administration (hereinafter – TMA) and the Reich Commissariat «Ukraine» (hereinafter – RKU) in 1941–1944. These administrative structures were authorized for the directly implement of the Hitler's occupation policy goals and objectives, but because they were relatively small, local government bodies were established in these occupation zones of Ukraine, represented by regional, city, district and village administrations. The main processes of goverment communication in the areas of responsibility of the TMA and the RKU involved the organization of internal service interaction of the vertical and horizontal levels between the purely German authorities and external – between the German and local authorities. The power vertical of the German occupation administrations was as closed and limited as possible for local subsidiary authorities. Local authorities were limited in the right to receive complete systemic information on the implementation of strategic objectives of the occupation policy, and the documents received by their leadership were quite specific purely executive. The power vertical of local authorities was exercised at the level of district (city) – village. Only for a short period of time, in some regions of the country under the jurisdiction of the TMA, the oblast was added to this administrative level. However, after the transfer of these territories to the RKU administration, the new government considered it unnecessary to leave the region councils in the status of auxiliary governing bodies. All official communications of the German authorities were of an orderly and unappealable nature, and their recipients, represented by the leadership of the local government, had only to carry them out. The vertical of German governance provided for the order of full subordination of regional and local German authorities to the highest status of the leadership. The main channels of official communication were announcements in the press, meetings of local government officials, telephone messages, orders and directives. Special codified collections of documents were issued to the German authorities, which the local authorities were forbidden to use. A main feature of the German military occupation was the parallelism and distribution of powers, the lack of real succession between the administrations of the TMA and the RKU, which in the global military confrontation was a reason of unsatisfactory efficiency and seemingly rational and optimally designed administrative system

administrative communication, occupation regime, collection of documents, order, instructions, authorities