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109-4/353 h/ - 2 - to be brought into the river. The relevant decree No. I 2 a - 1520, produced by Dr. Piesbergen, went on 23.ll.39 to the Moravian group and to the Lords Oberlandraten. The same was dealt with in a meeting of the Oberland Council in mid-Decem- on the matter. 6.) The decree does not in any way show that chechisd-led municipalities, especially those with an exceptionally small German minority, are to be used for the payment and maintenance of HJ-homes. It is inexplicable to me why this view can be interpre- ed by the Gauleitung Niederdonau into the decree. Therefore, I shall enclose the decree to take note of it. 7.) But even if the funds for the establishment of HJ homes by Czech-led municipalities were made available, I see here in contrast to the view of the Gauleitung Niederdonau nothing shameful, all the more so since the Czech municipalities financed their own cultural institutions for decades by German taxpayers' money, and in the concrete case it would only be a reparation. 8) The proposal made in the penultimate paragraph of the letter to the Secretary of State to establish the places in which HJ-Heime is needed has, moreover, long since been implemented, since, of course, we too, in each case, are carefully considering all the resulting needs. The determination of the number of 2 to 3 homes in each district of the Oberlandrat is completely indisputable, since this matter has to be assessed not schematically for all districts of the Upper Land Council, but according to local circumstances.