STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2133, sig. 109-8/16

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57 - 21 - Their leadership are the constant demands of them equally understood, which constantly place the obstacle and the material on the one hand and the slowly clarifying situation of the free-lending on the other hand. The in stark contrast to the planning play immediate sensibility of the events spares each special leadership. The few men on the ground will obey the most successful worker without this, and the handler quickly separates himself from the master. Because it is wrong to believe that the rescue work in question can be learned differently from the work itself, the guide should occasionally cooperate if the above conditions are met. Only work with one's own hands with their many renunciation of the means well-appointed on other occasions and above all with the experienced abundance of the many partial tasks and temporary actions allows an assessment or even later understanding guidance in this so difficult, but also so grateful area. After recognizing the existence of one or more of the above three cases, the leader could overtake whether his means and assistants were sufficient. While until then it was quite possible, through the imposition of unnecessarily required auxiliary forces, which are also full of urge to act and are reluctant to stand around, to imprison the leader only useless to precipitate actions, he himself now easily begins the serious mistake of wanting even the most difficult situations with his forces alone, even if the number of men at his disposal is obviously too small. On the one hand, it is up to the upper leadership not to send, but to provide, and on the other hand to the too ambitious leader after the recognition of the partial expenditures to limit the amount of work to the top. A demand for a certain minimum service has not yet taken place in such events. The moment of large-scale use, a raw work with a multiplication of weak hands or even the time for the use of large construction machines except - 22 -