STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2691, sig. 109-12/339 (poškozeno) Page 145 · 145 of 125
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2691, sig. 109-12/339 (damaged)
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= 6 - SSV were banned here and the import was blocked and it could be read on all our complaints in Czech newspapers that minorities are foreign bodies in the state, which are done elsewhere' in at most 1 - 2 generations, by simply being suppressed or assimilated violently. Here we should mention all the efforts of the so-called German activists who, against the perceptions of the people, entered the government 12 years ago in order to bring about an improvement in the conditions for our ethnic group in this state in honest friendship and kindness. After all the experience over a decade, they were just good enough to serve as a justification for all measures against us vis-à-vis foreign countries. Just as we do not doubt that many members of these German ruling parties really believed that they would improve their way, so the conditions and the recent withdrawal of the activists from the government have proved that they as Germans were only abused against the other Germans. If this policy were to continue, it would have happened that the Czechs would have really dealt with us in the long term in our disunity, because what was our youth in this state? The Czech schools were formally breeding intelligenzler, every Czech boy, whether from the city or from the country, wants to come into state services, today it is so that Czech traders almost no longer find apprentices and the Czech farmer no longer a Czech servant. 40,000 - 50,000 state positions are withheld from us Germans in this state, what enormous amount of remuneration has been lost to our people's body so far. Up to now, except for some exceptions, all state posts remained closed and what is not unemployed has so little merit that no house stand can be established from it. The result of this is not only an impoverishment of the Germans, but they would already fall to half of their number after one generation and may have stopped after three generations. All the complaints of our Members have not brought any remedy in these matters, the Czechisation Associations continue to work continuously, thousands of German children are lured by money in Czech schmlen, in order to