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

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Ia Pedisprotector ia ohnnund mähcen V Cig: 6 MA1 1943 The Head of Division V 2 Fag, May 5, 1943. Tart 54 Mr. Head of Department V. dy 5.v.1943. RI4 me. Subject: Settlement of Slovaks of Czech ethnicity from Slovakia. Appendix: 1 Directory. $\t{f Mine on 3rd and 4th May 1943. In May at the Pressburg office of the General Plenipotentiary for Labour because of the fulfilment of the farm labour contingent Gy. Oidy Jaeo led negotiations I was led by the High Government Council. Sager_confidentially informed that, for political reasons, the Slovak government will implement the long-prepared resettlement of all Slovaks of Czech Pq e Reyeyate g ethnicity from Slovakia in the near future. e aim of the Slovak Government is to remove all Czechs, regardless of whether they are involved with Czechs or Slovaks and without regard to their previous professional position - i.e. also self-employed farmers - from the Slovak territory. The Slo- 015.g3 Wakish government does not think of a deportation to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, but wants - again for political reasons it Jeag fn - to place the resettled in the rest of the Reich. With this accommodation the general authority 6666 7.MAI1043 tegte is to be dealt with for the employment or the Reichsarbeitsministerium fktenzelcanz. The Slovak government openly assumes that a deportation to the Protectorate would lead to a - it absolutely undesirable - strengthening of Czechism there, while on the other hand - 2 - W AA 8621 S..√B-36/43