NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 109, sig. 110-3/49 Page 23 · 23 of 113
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 109, sig. 110-3/49
English Translation
18a Also, when they return home, they would make sure that the country's population is properly explained by the board of trustees. The behaviour of these youth leaders is impossible. The minister himself did not get a good impression from the youth leaders. He explained that the board had failed in this first major effort. Although the leaders of the Kurato- rium had a certain SOLDATian cut, this was not sufficient for this task. There was no experience to guide and lead the people. It would have been much better to make people out of their own ranks as leaders. Should such an operation occur again, it would have to be carried out without the board of trustees. S There, where people from the ranks of young people have been identified as leaders on the basis of different backgrounds, there are no complaints. Although the dresser from Oberbannfuehrer is very concerned, he is also powerless and too much dependent on the Czech youth leaders. It is completely wrong that the youth leaders, for example, did not sleep with the people, but used their own rooms for themselves, which are so overheated that the windows must be opened. 5342 Also the youth leaders seem to speak quite a lot to the alcohol, which is easy to have in the area there. It would have been wrong to entrust the leadership of an inexperienced city youth, who has not participated so far and is still blasphemed. The overall impression of the minister was generally quite bad. He left Bruck, nevertheless Dr. Holik and Oberbannfuehrer Dressler were very keen to convince him that everything possible was done to improve the situation, rather worried and depressed. He explained that it would be the best, o