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

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/2 - 3 - used in woodwork for positioning construction. Individual columns work completely independently in bunker construction and in preparation for concrete of the positions. Also masses of timber are beaten. For the joy of work it is characteristic that e.g. A bunker construction team, which should complete five bunkers within a week, handed over eight ready bunkers at the end of the week. That the services of the protectorate members are far above the general average, has its reason that the people vpn their leaders were properly approached, and that they are constantly being shown what the increased work performance means. It was therefore considered expedient if word were kept and the young people were actually sent home at least a few days before the end of the 1 0 weeks. In the opposite case, the educational success of the whole operation would be questioned. The reason for the good work performance can also be seen in the fact that the peasant youth can deal better with hoe and spade and is also more resistant to cold and bad accommodation conditions than other human material. Up to now, three deaths occurred in the ski jump operation. A man was shot by the Hj-Wache, because he did not stop on call. A second man committed suicide and a third man died of appendicitis. According to a report by a district officer of the Youth Curatorium, who was in the field for a short time, the assigned care staff of the Jugendkuratorium was completely inadequate. Apart from the fact that the management of the care of about 1 0.O0o young people is in the hands of two representatives of the Youth Curatorium at the age of 23 and 25 years, the lack is that for this huge number of workers only 20 people of the Young Curator were hired. In the case of the difficulty of caring, the lack of continuity possibility, a multiple of these care units should have been used. With regard to the political attitude of the German population there, the district commissioner expressed that this was clearly negative about the war situation, the war prospects and about the necessity and the meaning of the ski jumping operation, which could have undesirable repercussions on the attitude of Czech country youth.