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

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24 24 sedex Deuteel tuarbeit. tmneslich - Pestigen rirtsohaft to strengthen, to train politically and doziit to carry the struggle for dilusweitung of the Peuttrns praised and did- strong from itself forward, One of the means. To strengthen the people's Germans in this struggle and to provide them with the necessary support will be to thank them, in accordance with the laws, which in deix last weeks are strongly represented in the office of the Reich Protector, to increase the number of German municipal leaders in the German areas of interest, one will of course make of it Cebrauch wherever the opportunity is offered to increase German influence by the appointment of German mayors, government commissaries and other Ruic officials. However, it will be necessary to guard against any other kind of schematic approach and to overestimate the peinterpretation of the establishment of such German municipal leaders for the struggle for popular activity, Only really competent officials with full personal dignity for their aut can be useful for revenge, perhaps even more important for the popular struggle than the acquisition of positions in dew Loamunal administrations will the occupation of the German teachers' positions on the cande be with the best material, here sex careful Muswahl to be made and we must pay attention to the fact that the most active, living and experienced forces, which are available, are available. in the German areas of interest. Moreover, one will have to assume that during the whole period a preparatory work can be carried out, but this must be so carefully and thoughtfully arranged that after the war the full essence of a comprehensive active German-Turkish work can immediately follow with success, to initiate rushed measures prematurely, as happened partly by the Land Office, would be forgotten, Not the momentary success decides, but the ababeite which decides on expertise. Continuation: is, settlement questions, Fragon of the division of new interpretations of Fauerntums,