Germany's MINISTRY for Chechnya and Moravia, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1147, sig. 110-11/85 (damaged)

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144 14 - 9 - The unresolved mood among the wounded of the reserve hospital Kladrub is particularly worrying because the indignation of the hospital members against the "Sytem Vlashim" is automatically directed against an institution of the party, against the party itself. St. On the basis of the circumstances surrounding his relations, the wounded are regarded personally as prominent representatives of the DAF and of the National Socialism. The methods of the wounded's treatment, which he practices, are regarded as Nazi forms of dealing with the wounded. This triggers outbursts like: "If the empire treats us so miserablely today, how bad will it become once we have the war behind us and they no longer need us." Through the system of ostrich, as has already been expressed variously, psychological damage is caused among German soldiers, which can sometimes be indelible in nature. It is precisely the wounded person, who is emotionally sensitive due to his disability and who has to gain a new balance in life, who also is deeply injured by the smallest injustices, insults, resettlement, equality with convicts, etc. If this is done in an enterprise which is outside under the sign of the German working front, then in these people every admission readiness for the demands of National Socialism will be spilled so far as they do not possess an inexhaustible idealism on their own. In the fifth year of the war, the Home Hospitals are responsible not only for their medical tasks but also for the physical restoration of our wounded, but also the psychological task of their psychological consolidation. On the basis of the above representations, it can hardly be assumed that the Reserve Hospital Kladrub under the leadership of Prof. ostrich of the latter, especially in the fifth year of war, does not do less important task.