THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2467, sig. 109-12/114

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Whether it is the face of all the Stidts, such as Rouen, whether it is citizens' palaces, council houses and court houses, whether they are the great cathedrals, the single-court settlements of the Breton and Norman peasants, or whether one looks at the men and women of the people no later, there is a feature everywhere related to the German nature. The attitude of the population to the political events of the present day, especially to the facts of the occupation, is somewhat different from that of the Czechs, whom we are accustomed to from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Of course, this also has a working effect, with all the reserves and all the healthy mistrust, which we now present in practice to the "opponents of the past". I would be pleased, Mr Secretary of State, to give you a personal lecture on these political problems and their blood-like, intellectual and racial foundations, as well as on the comparisons between Slavic-populated areas and a region of Germanic-Romanian mixed population, which is to be addressed at least in the East, North and North-East of France. On the 29th d.M. I will probably have a bigger consultation in the security chief office in Berlin. If this meeting comes about and my service it to some extent