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

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ZS - 3 - It has become known by what means the forest office this year forced the Czechs to sign the leases, Thus the Czech hunting chief Seidl from Eibis of Forstamt Seelowitz, probably by Forstmeister A d a m, was declared to sign, otherwise he acted against the law and will come to him the Stapo. The chieftain of the hunt, Lang from Prisnotitz, was explained that if he did not write, one would expropriate him, Now one considers that one will proceed against the Germans, who only poach on their moral right, with the same means, lan points out, that Oberforstmeister Weber again gives various planes to tenants, these are his preferred friends, factory owners, wholesalers and so on, and suspects that he has special advantages again. According to the findings so far, the community hunt Branowitz has not been used for the representation hunt so far. Thus, the so-called nature reserve would only serve to ensure that not so many pheasants and rabbits are shot down in this area, so that there is enough game in the real field of the representation hunting. From a hunting point of view, this measure is well understood. But if one takes into account that the scattered German language there, which has been held up by many battles in the Chechnya period, is hit at the most sensitive place, at its hunting passion, it would be advisable to remove the stone of the impulse, i.e. to give the community hunt again into German hands and not admit that the Czechs hunt on German fields, at the same time it is pointed out by the Germans that the forest office does not drive any game care at all. The game is neither cherished nor fed, variously it has happened that in the previous year thousands of animals simply died, without anyone shimmering about it, The German farmer is only good to let his fields be eaten up by the game, then he is promised compensation, which however is in no proportion to the damage incurred, The Germans farmers of Branowitz declared unanimously that they,