STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 299, sig. 109-4/41 (poškozeno) Page 6 · 6 of 25
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 299, sig. 109-4/41 (damaged)
English Translation
"The opinion must be based on the person of K.V. M ü 1 1 e r. M. comes from social-psychological work and is a consultant for vocational education in the Saxon Ministry of Education. His main interest lies in the field of talent research. He did not deal with racial questions until later; racial aspects are therefore taken into account, but sometimes not sufficiently strongly put into the centre of attention. In the summer of 1937, at a meeting on questions of population change held in Stuttgart under the leadership of the current specialist officer III B 15, M e r has for the first time dealt more closely with the problems of assimilation and over the years, above all from the social-anthropological point of view, considerably promoted the problem. His main merit is the clear recognition of certain laws, which are present in the Assimiliation question because gifted peoples attract talents in other peoples, if they do not find the necessary space for action in their own peoples. M. Emphasizes above all that the repopulation in the Bohemian Moravian region must become a process which naturally takes place in the sense of a voluntary selection of talents. He therefore rightly stresses that there is little point in exerting a coercion, but that it is important to show the Czechs in question to us that their rise in German is necessary for them and can also be affirmed by them without being ashamed of their tribal people. A decisive role in this psychological aspect of the matter will have to be played by the fact that a very large number of talented Czech families have German ancestors. M. does not respond to the sippenkundlichen research, which is important in this context, but it is necessary that they be expanded. It would be necessary to examine whether not in St.S TE19a