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

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The special promotion of German-Germanisation will not miss its influence on the German-Czech hybrids, and will also affect the Czechs. For its special Moravian Slovak and Wallachian conditions, the Oberlandrat in Zlin thinks first of all of having the landscapes determined by science, in which the population well fulfils the racial preconditions for the assimilation of beşonders.According to the East-Prussian conditions ( Kashuben, Masuren ), those places are then to be occupied with German elements, which are important in daily life for the fepopulation: teachers, community secretary, police and possibly also clergymen. Special trained people from the peripheral regions of the Protectorate will be suitable for this task. The other Germanization measures listed above could then also have good results in the rural conditions. The Oberlandrat in ditschin rejects Germanization measures hidden for the time after the war as small people's methods and demands open frontal attack on the Tsclechian acquis.However, all too open and enormous and measures will probably put obstacles in the way of the Üm people, especially the valuable elements of the Czechs. 6.Assessment When reporting, the regional councils usually silently assume that for the greater part of the Czech people an assimilation from racial groups is possible but also necessary in order to Germanicize the Bohemian region Most of the planned measures should first have an effect on the broad mass, in order then to read out from it the individuals capable and desired for real repopulation, thereby achieving a certain neutralization of the semenated population of the "aumes". Other measures