THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 19, sig. 109-1/22

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In Jglau, 470,O00 K per year were spent by the city on the police, so the city would have had to spend this amount by 5 years, which is a total of 2,350,000 K. By negotiating with the Ministry, the city was able to make a contribution to the security guard. The contribution obligation of the municipalities to the maintenance of the state police is no longer applicable to the municipality of Jglau.Since March 5, l939 the contribution obligation for the municipalities for the preservation of the public police has not been applicable to all municipalities. In July, an SS aid police was set up under the authority of the State Protectorate Government.This condition can only be regarded as an interim solution,which needs to be changed as quickly as possible. It would be difficult to find a national composition corresponding to the German character of the city. A third possibility would at best be that the Reich should take over the police in cash and introduce the Reich police here,with the possibility of introducing a rich municipal police again, but this third possibility will be hardly or only difficult for general political reasons at the moment. In any case, the Jglau police question will soon have to be resolved. The enforcement of the administration of the city with German personnel is much further here than in Olmütz.It is of the officials 38.5 German and 6l.5% Czech.Almost all the senior officials are German.The 16 units of the municipality are assigned 5 speakers, of which 4 German and one Czech.When the official's business was taken over by the government commissioner, there was no German speaker.The appointment of 5 concept officials as speakers,who are all lawyers, may seem too high and it is to be examined whether one of these can not be deprived. The course of business is not complicated.There is the 319