STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 270, sig. 109-4/12

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1g - 19 and, after German district governors have taken over the leadership of the cities, will have to be expanded as key positions of Germanism more and more, the city of Wsetin was and is purely Czech. However, its importance for German politics lies in the large arms factories there, which make it necessary to create a secure position for German influence. A different but no less important position will be given to the town of Otrckowitz in the future. The place is located on the important railway line that connects Vienna-Lundenburg with Oderberg and thus the Upper Silesian Industrio area. Furthermore, the intersection of the Oder-Donau Canal and the Reichsautobahn Brno - Zlin - Slovak border will be located near Otrokowitz. This will create all the prerequisites that industry will set you up and develop there. Already now, in recognition of the importance of the place, Bata has laid hands on Otörkowitz and to a large extent acquires land ownership in the place itself and in its surroundings, has relocated there also workers' settlements and some of its enterprises, non-national but economic reasons therefore make it necessary, in view of all these circumstances, that the future German-Turkish policy focuses its particular attention on this important transport hub. In order to be able to drive Slovak politics effectively in the indicated sense in the future, it will essentially be important to attract the cities of Ung,Hradisch and Göding. They must become the focal points of a policy of the people, which is based on the particularities of the country. In both cities it is added that they have been strongly German-oriented and influenced already in earlier years.The population figures in both cities are following 1890 1910 1920 1930 D. Tsch. D. Csch.D. Tch. Ung.Hradiseh oc 2764 369 7717 157 5105 213 5583 Göding 3268 4348 5223 5952 950 11247 58213166 1910 thereafter has the share of the German population in Ung . Aradian