GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 565, sig. 110-4/413

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-2 -- 21 has been the case for five years so far, and to show that it is not a question of treating a trust-managed establishment as a source of personal enrichment and as a grant-object to increase one's retirement earnings. But if Sje disagree and call all this not important for the war, I cannot speak against it by simple citizens, and I must, though inwardly contrary, submit to them and let the matter continue to be based on them. 08 But just a few weeks after my HeT departure from Boskowitz, my successor in the trusteeship at the Fma. R.Stelcl chose to die, when he only heard that no0 entered a gendarme, his apartment. And this Vg. only four Iruner Wochen/aIs my successor on the part of the wealth office was found worthy to manage an enterprise in the name of the kingdom, the same which I should remove a few days before his appointment to the trustee by order of the property officer of the estate office if necessary with the GESTAPO from the enterprise. What must this Vg. have had everything on the knowledge of whom he has already taken to the revolver at the mere appearance of a genera in his home. But if I had expressed my suspicions, which I had against this man from the first hour in which I came into contact with him, at the wealth office, I would still have been persecuted as a slanderer, because sometimes one has a suspicion, which cannot be proved by the court regulations, but is factually and humanly very justified. Of course, I must also pass Irish judgement on whether such events promote the reputation of Germanism or not, in the case of other national citizens in Bos-kowitz. For my person, I am of the insignificant opinion that it is extremely important that the fellow citizens of Bøskowitz, other nationalities, but also everywhere else, have the greatest respect for every German and his integrity, as a result of his inner moral qualities, which, of course, cannot give the individual an office or a certificate of detention if they are not innate to him. But it seems that the various high emters, especially when the trustees are installed, usually have a very unfortunate hand, or there may also be a lack of knowledge of this space and its people, the reason why one hears about it everywhere, whether that trustee is sitting there or there.