THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 219, sig. 110-4/65

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- 2 - This is because there would have been no need to prevent a serious concern of the Czech population. The children were accommodated by relatives and acquaintances and had settled there, so that they had probably already noticed their examination and had shown effects that had to be avoided in the present situation in the Protectorate, especially in view of the demand for peace of labour as a precondition for unrestricted war production. The decision on their further treatment must therefore be postponed to a later date. 65 children of Czechs who have been legally separated are closed, 46 in the Swatoborschitz Inter- nierungslager, 19 in a children's home in Prague Reuth. These children come mainly from parents from the villages of Liditz and Lecaky, whose inhabitants shot or killed in connection with the measures after the attack on 4-upper group leader Heydrich. Of these children, 7, who were considered to be capable of Germanisation during an investigation by the branch of Bohemia and Moravia of the Main Office of Race and Sieving in 1942, were housed in a children's home in the Warthegau.The commander of the Security Police and the SD already tried at the beginning of 1943 to reach a decision on the further treatment of the children who were present in the detention camp and the child's house and who were found unable to Germanize, with a proposal for a transfer to the East. Today, it is no longer advisable to exclude these children from Bohemia and Moravia, since in the meantime some of the relatives have known the children's stay and have made a connection in an illegible way. These messages have leaked out, as the hiring of Czech service personnel was not to be avoided.