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

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6la - 2 - farmers and especially the young farmers standing before the enemy to secure their hunting district. He himself is a non-hunter, but also considers it to be unbearable for Czech hunters to hunt in Branowitzer corridors grinningly. The state hunting district is so large that there is absolutely no need to include community hunting. If the Herr Reichsprotektor or other leading figures wanted to hunt on Branowitz's territory, this would be a great honour for the German farmers at any time. But that the Czech forestry personnel of the state forest office Seelowitz should raise personnel hunts there, that is an impossibility for Germanism to endure. They were prepared to assign one third of their hunting district (favourably located) - unführung 40o ha for the nature and game protection area Groß-Seelowitz, but so far Mr. Oberforstmeister Weber, the acting head of the state forest office Seelowitz has completely failed to understand and accept. The hunting district Branowitz covers 1183 ha. The hunt was held for 6o years by the German family Dworaczek in Branowitz. It was last 18 years in the hands of the 45-year-old farmer Wilhelm Dworacek, resident of Branowitz No. 36, until it was taken from the Czechs in 1936 and beaten to the State Forestry Office Seelowitz. After the German troops had invaded, the Germans had hoped that the wrong done to them would be made good by the German authorities and that the hunt on their ground would be released. This did not happen, however, because Mr. Oberfor mister Weber was from the outset unapproachable and opposed, since he allegedly needs the territory for representation purposes at the state forest amt Seelowitz, according to the Germans, the attitude of Mr. Weber should be so that he goes through the area like a "feudal aristocrat" from past times haughtily without. Greeting to the German, who usually wear their party badge on their simplest skirts, and could never be seen in a National Socialist meeting in this area. It should be assumed, therefore, that only from this position of the Lord's Chief Forestry Master Weber these difficulties 61328