STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1573, sig. 109-4/1327 (damaged)

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228a 4. The poor issue of war service crosses to the workers in the Protectorate is a special feature of the incomprehension for the local conditions. As already reported to the central administration, for example, 40 percent of the forest workers working there have been awarded the war service cross. Foresters, who worked in the Olsa area under the leadership of German forest officials in the Protectorate, have been distinguished,without even thinking that their superiors were considered in the protectorate. III. Forest school questions: The matter has now been settled that the representative of the Reichsforstamt met the wishes of the Secretary of State and personally in Pra with Mr Steatssschreiber talked through the perpetuation of the wish of the Service Velle of the Imperial Protector and presented it in Auicht. However, it has also been expressly stated by the representative of the Richs-Forstamt that a uniform reporting and a subjective view of the special conditions in the Protectorate have led to pro- ceeding attacks against the group Forst, it is worth noting that more than 3 weeks after this audition in the Sudetengau again against the decision of the Reichsforstamt Vider- a statement was made and that complete incomprehension for the political conditions in this protectorate was demonstrated. IV. Forest acquisition: drd d ed p d d d Forstschule Mähr.-leisskirchen was to be acquired by Count Althann in exchange for a part of the forest lying in the vicinity of the Sehu le. This required the purchase of a 300 ha large forest in the Sudetengau on the protectorate border and in the neighborhood of Althan's property. At first, the Reichsforstamt had agreed to this plan; however, by intervention of the Landforestry Office and the Reichnährstand in the Sudetengau, the purchase was prevented on the grounds that the Czechs had not to buy a forest in the Sudetengau. Here the Count Althann would be supported in the way of reparation on the one hand and thus created a precedent. The Reichsf banished itself to the view of the Lan 60393