STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1811, sig. 109-5/39

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yoW 13 Security Service RF-M Brno, 7 January 1941 M20 SD - Brno B2 - PA: 40/40 g /4/41 . To the XV4/8 ON SD section Prague, Prag Betr.: 3 9 0 t Lt. colonel omman eub sep Troop training site near Vische Vorg.: In circles of leading people's deputies from Wischau, there is a great excitement about the derogatory statements made by the commander of the troop training area near Wischau (Colonel lieutenant Hammerschmidt) about the popular Germanism. The results of this confidential investigation were as follows: On 8.ll.40 the commander of the troop training ground in Wischau, Lieutenant Colonel Hammerschmidt, held a meeting on the resettlement of the inhabitants associated with the expansion of the military training ground at Wischau: as far as it could be determined, Dipl.Ing. A r k e of the department of Moravia of the Reich Protector, district head Dr. B e r g m a n from the district authority in Vi schau, government council Dr. P e t e r from the Oberlandratsamt in Brno, and the employee R a s c h k a from the employment office branch Wischau. Wäh meeting Colonel Hammers expressed himself impressively and in not misunderstood F, that with his German works is to begin and that against that the tschedter would be much better than the people German nant Hammerschmidt came to a general than if with the people Germans at all to catch. He told among other things that