STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1643, sig. 109-4/1398

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ya About Baron Parish is still known in detail that he is married to a born Countess v.Oppersdorf. He himself is a man without character and without his own conviction and is completely under the influence of his mother, a born freewoman of Wiedersperg, who is also a fanatical Czech, although she can only speak poor Czech. Sarken's influence on him was also influenced by his business director Ná vesnik and his forestry master Fousek, who are also known as German haters and probably also led him to dismiss his German employees. During the autumn mobilization l938, Parish has made all its property available to the Czech military, has its economic buildings expanded to support points and has declared itself free of charge. Neither after the reclassification of the Sudetengau, through which the large part of his possessions fell into the Reichsgebiet, nor after the establishment of the Protektorats, Parish changed his attitude. He also tried very hard to educate his children Czech, although they had also attended German schools at times. In the autumn of 1940, he intended to profess Germanism, probably on the basis of the ideas of his relatives living in the Reich, but soon withdrew from this purpose. The reasons for the behaviour of Baron Parish are clearly in the catholic-legitimistic attitude of the Parish and of individual members of his family (moth and sister). A substantial part of Baron Parish's German relationship should probably not be burdened and possibly be prepared to try to intervene. Although Parish has 6 children, who by no means need to be considered "lost as the German people", it might be useful to apply the consequences resulting from the compulsory administration to yes even against him, regardless of any mitigating circumstances. F. 10.4. gez. J a c o b i 4-Sturmbannführer. 16213 ( 14.6.43