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

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13 - 25 - earlier use of machinery. The appearance of the machines then has the greatest effect as visible help, because the machines at the same time turn to the maximum number of senses (often all five), i.e., an event, an action, a progress or success in the most possible way leads to perception through all the senses. Furthermore, the perceptible help becomes more meaningful by an increased pace of men's work, resulting in the need for more frequent detachments. Thus, a guide in the repair service must not be too much devoted to the image of the "technician working in silence", since the repair department also has the task of psychologically affecting the population in order to strengthen the mental defenses and the will to defend itself. This partial task of the repair service, to which he can do well, has perhaps not yet been felt enough by himself; for from it, besides a further strengthening of his inner attitude, there are at the same time high demands on his external attitude and overall appearance at all.