STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 26, sig. 109-1/29

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1V - 15. In an appropriate way, the population should be taught how to produce, that without fear of adverse consequences, it really came to speak openly on these occasions. 7.) Uniform orientation. As a necessary supplement to the information from below, which the Oberlandrat has to receive continuously in order to evaluate it partly locally immediately, partly to present it to the German S+aatsminister, it is still necessary to inform the general policy and about concrete intentions and prepared measures in the Protectorate. Only then will the decisions of the Upper Land Councils be effective and sound and can they be in line with the political guidelines of the Minister of State. It is often claimed that the problem of the Oberlandrat is so difficult because there are six Oberlanderrats in the Protectorate and six different opinions and actions of this position, but the Ober-Raaten had no choice but to work in practice according to their own opinion and their own mind. Since the persons are different, the handling of the Aemter is also different. After the adoption of a clear and clear instructions for service and ongoing joint organization, this deficiency will be resolved immediately by itself. The external form of this ongoing information arises without further ado because of the so-called "over-technical" and particularly emphasized confidence of the Oberlandrats in the German S+Aatsminister. The information of the Upper Land Councils will be mainly a political one. This should take place in a committee which - 16 -