STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2231, sig. 109-11/32

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Officers-cooperation. Sheet 2. In addition, as sometimes happens, a machine gun is more valuable today than all the sympathies of the moralized world, as all the sympathy of the heat powers towards the powerless Germany 15 years ago and its It seems, however, that the so tense world political situation, which will soon lead us to decisions, as history has never known before, will make it appear more appropriate for the Third Reich, is an important factor in the European Union's economic and social cohesion. At least military forces would be free for the main purpose.Finally, and this is the main thing-is it the will of the leader and therefore also of the heads of the protectorate government- with the ćechisches People may get along in kindness and tranquillity, and it is a peaceful process of successful integration into the Great German Empire. This was at the time also the intention to create the military governments in Poland (Warsaw and Lublin) Serbia (Belgrad) and Italy (Udine) and even if the great events destroyed the realization of the aspirations for integration, the suitability and adaptability of those who were employed in these, even rather difficult, administrative tasks of the occupied countries, have lost out. Officers,inabeeonders but their ability to adapt to foreign nations, acquired by changing garrison in the whole Monardy with 12 peoples and 5 religions from Lake Constance to Bukovina and from the Reichenberg to Cattaro, was just as successful as the excellent oscillation. Military administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which also referred to foreign observers as a model of European cultural work, and which is often mentioned with gratitude by the present resident there. We have hardly had an active official from the captain's group up, who does not know 2,3 or more languages at least for service and with recruits and soldiers of several nations in their mother tongue could understand their national peculiarities. I can therefore well imagine (and many friends and officials who are concerned about it are of the same opinion) that the protectorate government, which was set up before such difficult building-up-supply-retraining-social and defence-related questions, should use this possibly still existing valuable assistant in support of the still leading Reichsdeutsche institutions in political and military terms.