STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1513, sig. 109-4/1267 Page 23 · 23 of 28
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1513, sig. 109-4/1267
English Translation
25 Group II/2 Food and Agriculture Prague, 20 October 1941. Note. Subject: Czech agricultural cooperative system. I. Fundamental. The eminent political significance of the Czech cooperative system is a solid fact. The agricultural cooperatives in the Protectorate, precisely because there is no regional organization of agriculture, represent the Volkische collection point of the Czech peasantry. This is all the more the case since the peasantry in the Protectorate is covered to a much greater extent than in the Old Reich cooperatively and competitive land traders - even if in contrast to the Reich - are not present in the protectorate. For this reason, I have been trying for a long time to create a Czech country trade organization (with German control in the top) using the existing Jewish land-trading enterprises as a counter-pollution against the responsibilities and we have been able to increase the scope of power by the practice in many cases only under the distribution apparatus of the t no Nührt. aiahtimno aiacon Potsoch