STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1899, sig. 109-5/127

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Rankes has to be that the various organs of the Reich administration, the party and the Germans within the Protectorate administration are obliged to mutual open support. All special interests must escape from this a great goal, the Germanization of the Bohemian Moravian region. If, on the other hand, a person violates, he is unsuitable and inexorable for the work in this room. 3. The present circumstances Two moments confirm the present attitude towards a major assimilation: the general political situation, in particular the psychological moment and the issue of deployment. The political situation has become so stiff during the course of the war and, especially in the last few months, that the success of assimilation of valuable Czechs is not yet éfžielën at least. The Czechs are not yet ripe for a repopulation, in particular it is not possible to leach the racially particularly desired forces. Some Czechs, who now want to profess German, are rejected as "broken." Only in single-wall cases can and must a Czech person be allowed to belong to the German people and to the state. The Czech people remain in the mass in vain in rejection. The planned anti-rich whispering and broadcasting propaganda has been able to grasp even the peasant and working class at least to the extent that it is unresolvedly opposed to all velketemepelitive Germans. The two popular political fronts are exceptionally hardened. The collapse of all hopes of a separate state, the realization 19.