STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1813, sig. 109-5/41

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Copy Hermann Milke Kommandit-Gesellschaft Berlin-Sw 68 To the commissioner for the transit highway Mr. Ober-Baurat Lorenz Mähr.- Trübau Adolf Hitlerplatz 2. Gross-Opatowitz, 3l July 194l Sch/s. Betr.: Reichsdeutsche im Protektorat. About the address sent to us by your letter of 30.d.M. over- we take the following position. We reject the accusations against the Reich Germans in the Protectorate, as far as our firm and its followers are concerned. Our followers have been working on construction sites for years and many for decades, which has brought them into contact with Germans of all ages. In all cases it has so far been possible to establish that there was a very cordial and good agreement between our members and the local population, from the first day until the end of the construction site. Why should this be different on our protecrorate site? No case has been reported or reported to us, in which one of our members of the company would have behaved profusely or arrogantly towards the people of Germany. Our construction site in the Protectorate was opened in April 1939. Many months passed before a DáF office was concerned about the supervision of our construction site. We were also very surprised about this. It took about a ./.