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13a R a s c h k a , that this is probably a semi-Jew. Colonel Hammerschmidt is now said to have pointed out that he is likely to receive worse German workers only because the good German workers can be accommodated mainly in Brno in better paid positions, so that he will inevitably receive the workers who are not hired in Brno, and that it is very difficult to bring German workers into Wischau with regard to the general shortage of Germans. Furthermore, Lieutenant Colonel Hammerschmidt was informed by Dr. Peter that he could not form the general judgment on the basis of the few Germans who were in his possession. As far as is known here, he was only employed at the troop training site in Wischau 60 to 70 German. Bergmann also told a local VM that Hammerschmidt was supposed to have expressed himself in the following sense: "From me, the linguistic island communities can remain silent at all, the German workers are no good at all. I only ask for work performance, folk politics is a lost romance. At the troop training ground in Wischau the military interest alone is decisive, one does not come to me with folk-political things!" It is expressly pointed out that the aberrations of the lieutenant colonel Hammerschmidt Dr. Bergmann were no longer literally common and that the above abertions represent a resumé of the omissions of H.. On the occasion of a mid-December meeting between Hemmerschmidt . the District Chief Dr. Bergmann and a representative of the Czech Ministry of the Interior at the District Authority in Wischau, H. expressed himself in the course of the discussion about the following:"Ministerial Councillor Naudé had to previously Germanize the area here (force training ground)." Dr. As already mentioned at the beginning, the remarks by Colonel H. on Germanism in Wischau in the German population have become known and there is a considerable indignation. 66549 Auli ?07 turabannfihrer