STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 392, sig. 109-4/137 (damaged)

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10 - 2 - The security police concerns are only partly true according to the opinion of Hauptbannführer Zoglmann. The corresponding associations and associations are already present for the most part. The possibility for meetings and meetings on a uniform basis exists at the moment. It would not be possible for the Czech youth leaders to come together without German supervision in the case of a German-controlled youth movement. Skepticism is in place in today's organizational form regarding the youth union youth. In the 28 trade unions there are individual youth sections, in which only a fraction of the working youth is covered. (Z.Zt. About 13 ooo) A practical youth arbéit is performed by the Marxist communist leading union secretaries at most in Prague, but not otherwise. However, this is also not possible otherwise, because of the lack of own union youth leaders and because of exodus in the individual sections, since the youth sections of a single trade union have member states for the whole protectorate 6oo - 9oo youth. In order to create an instrument suitable for German influence from the trade union youth, it would have to be rebuilt accordingly. A single union youth across all sections with separate organizational and financial structure would be required. Experience shows that young people aged between 1 and 8 years are particularly ready for the political struggle, regardless of any ties. Today, they are most readily accessible to anti-German measures. Therefore, the proposals initially only provide for the 6 to 15 year-olds to be covered in order to gradually grow into the critical years. With reference to previous experiences, e.g. with the ice hockey, Zoglmann evaluates the prospect of an influence on the youth over the sport. Starting points are available and is, for example, Krychtálek active sportsman. However, it is also necessary to compete with sports clubs and to involve the Czechs in intergovernmental and national competitions in order to be able to offer them something: -3-