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The Imperial Protector Brno, August 1941 in Bohemia uud Moravia Department for the Land Moravia Ministerial Councillor Naudé Office of the State Secretary An at the Reichspcotektor the office of the Lord Secretary of State in Bohemia and Mühren. in P r a g IV, Eing.: Czerninpalais. 8th AUG. 1941 Tgb. n Subject: Colonel Hammerschmidt. Letter of 3.7.1941 - St.S.261/41 (g) -. Since the district captain Dr.Bergmann - Wischau ngch has not returned from vacation, I have not yet been able to form an exact birä about the events at the meetings in November and December 4940. The commander of the troop training station Wischau, Colonel Hammerschmidt, is known to me as an impulsive 13/8.47. Man, whose utterances can often seem strange to outsiders who do not know him, but are usually not meant to be as sharp as it seems. The fact that he occasionally dropped certain derogatory remarks about the value of the labour performance of the People's Germans, which are deployed on the Wischau- er troop training ground, seems to me to be firm according to the statements of my regional plan, Dipl.Ing.Arke, and the head of the Brno Labour Office, government councillor Dr.Peter. Also, Colonel Hammerschmidt, at least in the past, has often taken a position in popular affairs, which was too strongly dictated from only military points of view. However, I have taken the opportunity to talk to him again recently about such questions and have been able to find out that he has gradually become more familiar with the problem of the struggle for popularism and, above all, shows understanding of the burning questions of the Wischauer Sprachinsel. He has also given me the assurance that in these matters he always wants to work together with the Oberlandrat and me closely and keep touch. A final report and Lf anguy I will report at the end of the month after the return of the Dr.Bergmann, as soon as my 3-week vacation, which I am doing tomorrow, will also have expired. I do not wish to leave this matter to my colleague. n8-2 6/81