THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 109, sig. 110-3/49

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Report on the visit to Lower Danube by Minister Hrubý on the use of the hill for agricultural youth. unfl 20 PAG.METHGA On 2l. ds.Mts., Minister Hr u b ý visited the farm for youth in Lower Danube. In order to welcome the Minister, besides the Lords of the Staff and the Land Federation of Maehren, there was also the district administrator, as well as the head of the Gauorganisation of Nieder-Donau, who welcomed the Minister on behalf of the Gauleiter of Nieder Donau. After the greeting, the tour of Bruck was started. The Minister drove during the 2l. ds.Mts. The common area in which the Czech youths are skimming off. People's shelters were generally bad. Men are in part housed in stables, in part in unheatable, often heavily building-like oaks. Not infrequently there were snow heaps next to the people's straw camps, as a result of the damaged daechs. People complained about frost and pointed out that they were not given the opportunity to warm themselves or to dry the wet clothes. The possibilities for improving these conditions are rather small with a view to the agricultural character of the area there. According to the Minister, however, there is also a lack of an appropriate organization. So the minister pointed out that it would have been possible to find the damaged places of the barns with reeds or loisstroh, that in the area there ./.