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

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H if they lead to certain interventions in school autonomy, do not shy away, enemy disloyal attitude must be punished with recklessness. Accordingly, for example, the legionaries must take sharp action. The influence and training for the understanding of the new state-law conditions must also be taken into account for the growth of the population. An attempt to bring the civil servants on a uniform line to a certain extent must be dared. Preferentiality and promotion of particularly loyal Czech officials will not miss their effect. Finally, every opportunity to familiarise Czechs with the great achievements of the Third Reich in the various areas of life is already to be taken advantage of today. Thus the Czechs know and appreciate the better social position of the German worker, especially the employment in the Old Kingdom. The advertising power of German cultural and spiritual life can already have an effect on the Czechs today, but a danger must be removed. In history, the Czech people have demonstrated on several occasions in opposition to other Slavic peoples, especially because of its great quality German bloodshed, the power to preserve its political independence against strong cultural, political and state influences of great Nachbaren by an independent exploitation and acceptance of the forces exerting external pressure. The İschechentum is currently pushed into the defensive.Covered from the outside, pushed from the inside by constantly newly created, strictly closed German positions, a strong defensive bloc of the Czechs has emerged. Recognizing the resulting political and popular political dangers, numerous Upper Land Councils (especially Olomouc, Prague, Kolin, M.Ostrau, Pardubitz) are therefore calling for the Czech people to be brought out of their current isolation, to give it to the influence of the German Reich and people as many political economic and cultural areas as possible and thus to allow it for all times to become politically independent,