STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 595, sig. 109-4/342

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English Translation

The measures taken by the head of the district for the termination of this state proved to be ineffective so far, when the party discipline among the People's Germans is not yet strong enough to be able to successfully implement the preferred solution of the ties to the administration. In addition, the Oberlandrats, with their relatively large staff, are constantly able to obtain all the information from the first hand through regular visits to their bases and are thus able to solve many problems independently without first requesting the necessary opinion of the district head. B a y e r l, has recognized these conditions as only temporarily justified for the construction and authority of the party and is endeavouring to bring about a change in this state by an intensive cooperation with the district leadership. However, this is not the case with the Oberlandratsamt in Cory Olmütz. The legitimate efforts of the circuit leader to obtain the unconditional recognition of the position of the party also with the Oberlandrat were regarded as personal and ambitious attacks of the district leader and, moreover, were even addressed by a member of the Ober- Landratsamt as a "party-orthodox" effort. Nr. Kranich. In addition to the original intention to use the ties to the people's Germans only for security and control reasons, a real news activity has been developed over time. To this end, the assigned gendarmes, which regularly remove the area for the collection of news, are also used. For example, in Prerau, Olmütz attempted to use these gendarmes , which do not know the Czech language at all, for the direct version of the news from Czech circles.