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

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51a - 2 - 9eun Tate With regard to housing, it has indeed been tried to set up heating rooms; as far as this is possible with the enormous amount of people and the few available heating material. The managers for the use, even for the construction management, were placed largely by the youth curatorium against the employed. The leaders of the Youth Curatorium had already grown together with the political leaders and local commanders to form a cordial working class. They would be treated on an equal footing with the Germans. Where this was not entirely possible, the protectorates had completely separated themselves from the foreign workers. In the case of patrols and other measures, the political leaders would be actively supported by the members of the protectorate in order to maintain calm and order. In one case, Slovaks who called on the members of the protectorate to sabotage had been severely beaten by them; in another case, two Russian prisoners who fell over a political leader and stabbed with knives had been seized by the underprivileged of the youth curatorium and almost killed on the spot. In contrast to the other foreign workers employed there, the Czechs had at least as good job successes there as the Germans. With the political leaders everywhere there is a keen interest in the youth curatorium, since it is recognized that it has to do with a better human material than the Viennese Czechs. It would therefore in fact provide them with any kind of support and the cooperative cooperation TO and Acknowledgment strengthens their self-confidence and the joy of working. Men who fell ill in the ski jump and therefore had to be sent home, expressed themselves very positively about the people of the Ju-gendkuratorium. They explained that it was thanks to these people that, despite many difficulties and hard work, the use was so good. new dn lee As far as the work performance itself is concerned, it was possible to maintain it.The tool became blunt, the stems broke down and there was no field forge to restore the gerates. For this reason, for the most part 1A0-3-49 teams were