THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 145, sig. 110-3/85

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dae - 2 - Meqouat qoegolspeaploet a nimbus, which the NSDAP and the wearers of their uniform so far d2 undoubtedly had with a large part of the Czechs. This loss of prestige will no doubt have a full effect only when, after the completion of the work, the Schanzarbeiter will have returned to their home countries and then, with far more critical eyes than before, will observe the activities of the NSDAP and its political exponents. In the form of their measures, only in a few cases, the very sharp political leaders showed a happy hand. Rather, they proved their lack of political instinct on the question of Czech treatment. The following example is significant: On 7.II.45 at 7.30 a.m., Kuntschitz, the political head of H.K e l e r, accompanied by political head M a yer, came to the camp supervised by the local administrator K (Kuratorium) Š o l t a and told him that he was a pig, that he should be ashamed to educate the Czech youth. He drives sabotage, because on that day only 4 men from 2o men came to work. Ten of them, however, had been recognized as sick and six men had bad shoes. In response to Šolta's remarks that he was not entitled to control the doctor and that, since he had not received any shoes, he had no fault in the low level of use, Keller replied that he had to have ŠolTA locked up and shot. Keller also ordered that the workers who had stayed at home should only be followed up with soup and no further food. At many places of work, political leaders seek to achieve a bearable relationship with Czech ski jumpers by releasing them prematurely from jobs, by maintaining the undesirable chord system for long leisure time, etc. The extent to which the reception goes, is illustrated by the following play: The Special Representative of the German State Ministry for Warehousing found on a check trip through the Schanzgebiet that managers of the NSDAP Schanzarbeiter, who were written by the doctor in good health, nevertheless left him in the camp as allegedly ill. The following incident, also reported by the Special Envoy for Warehouse Care, shows to what extent German supervisors fall into a foreign country's environment: