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

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14.a 104-4-342/12 socialist world view opposed to giving political leadership the documents to fight it. 2.a) Also in the state sector it is possible to identify certain parallel development phenomena. immediately after the education of the Protectorate, with the help of the local Germans, a picture of the situation in their district, about the special circumstances, persons, etc. was created, although the SD was able to do so from the outset, since it had been in the CsR intelligence service even years before the establishment of the protectorate. and was essentially familiar with the problems and persons, but was able to work from the day of deployment in the works council. The councils have often relied on German representatives, in part also on Czech authorities or contributors, who still serve them today as "objective" sources of information, although they are rejected by the SD or regarded with reservations. In addition, there is the impression that some Upper Land Councils are satisfied with the knowledge acquired in the Czech sector by means of a strict administrative supervision and support themselves exclusively in the assessment of the situation in their district. This non-hazardous development would have been stopped on its own if the essentials of cooperation between SD and the state authorities had been recognized everywhere. For it was recognized that informing the state of certain political phenomena by informing the police was not enough, but that the authorities of the general and internal administration about such 09008