A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2766, sig. 109-16/1

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W transcript bok OPEN QUESTIONS ON THE SLOVAK ORDER After the situation of 6.9.1944 in the evening. After the transition of the majority of the Slovak Wehrmacht with its generals to the insurgents and according to the determination of the large-scale planning of an organized revolution on 30 August d.J. led to the invasion of German troops into Slovakia, in order to throw down the uprising and to pacify the country in the military and economic interest of the empire. According to this objective, there is now a plethora of questions which I would like to group as follows: 1/ Dte military action for the prostration of the uprising, 2/ the permanent occupation of the country for the maintenance of calm and order, 3/ the future constitutional construction of Slovakia, 4/ the Slovak state leadership, 5/ the representation of the kingdom in Slovakia, 6/ the Influence of the Empire on the politics and business management of the Slovak ministries and top authorities, 7/ the safeguarding of Slovak economic life in particular of currency and supply, 8/ the organization of economic relations between the Reich and Slovakia in particular the settlement traffic, 9/ labour input, 10/ investigation of the responsibility of the German representative authorities in Slovakia for the inadequate defense of the Slovak revolutionary movement. Up to now, decisions have only been taken in sub 1,3 and 4/ mentioned questions, i.e. ad 1/ )Military action) the concentric attack on the centre of the Partisan movement located in Central Slovakia with the capital Banska Bistrica, after large parts of the west, east and good partisan territory were essentially cleaned by the enemy. - ad 3/ (The future state-law construction of Slovakia) was decided to maintain the sovereignty of the country by accepting the good will of the overwhelming part of the a_Volke and its leadership as given.