THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1120, sig. 110-11/58

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41 St.S. XI B - 163 g/42. Prague, 2 March 1943! X Cednedanag-psdana -3. 1943 Subject: Representative hunt of the Imperial Protector in Groß-Seelowitz. In order to close the conflict between the Reichs protector group Forst on the one hand and the German land permanent farmers in the village of Branowitz on the other side, which has been pending for months, I ordered the local bsuer's guide and chief hunter Raab from Branoitz and the Oberforstmeister Weber from G8-ding to me today and let me speak from both sides about the matter. I have noted that Veber's firm position is that it is necessary to include the hunting area of Branowitz in the nature and vild conservation area of Groß-Seelowitz in order to round off the Reichsprotector's re-preeentation hunting area, and that Weber was inaccessible to the objections and arguments of the German farmers, in the sense that all the farmers living there were heined, I have to say that there is a deep bitterness about the treatment of the peasants by the Reich's protector. They believe that they are now losing their "old farmers' rights" only because of their indisputable reasons of representation. They cannot understand and revolt at all as old folk fighters who knew how to defend their rights for decades in the fight against the Czechs with their hard peasant skulls. I think that the prevailing mood there is worrying and, as a non-hunter, I have no political understanding of the fact that this