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

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- 2 - derdonau on the route Pressburg-Neusiedler-See 10.0oc Czechs from lo.l2.d.Js. to be made available. From my responsibility, I would point out once again that the action - apart from the difficulties in the field of labour - will trigger a very strong atmospheric and agitational reaction which will be extremely difficult to absorb, both security police and propaganda. A major concern of the Czech population is in any case inevitable. This impression has become even stronger with me after an examination with the Minister of Agriculture Hrubý. I have now initiated the necessary recruitment of Czechs - and that is that the workers are taken from the years 192l-1923 of agriculture. This is the only way out because, firstly, the high-tensioned arms industry in the Protectorate must not be burdened by any means, and secondly, in the case of agriculture, a loss of work is still the most bearable at the moment. With regard to the implementation of the ski jumping operation to be coordinated with Gauleiter Dr.Jury, I make the condition that the control and supervision of the Czechs as well as in the other Reichsgebiet lie in my hand. It is also necessary for the Czechs to be given the same conditions of employment and employment as the German labour force coming into use at the same time, that they are used in a closed manner and that their use does not exceed the duration of a week. I would ask you to confirm that I can count on the observance of the above points of view, which I consider to be politically unreliable and which is why Minister Hrubý has made a binding promise.