English Translation

US Security Service RW Prague, 8 March 1940 SD-head section Prague B 2 - PA 1623 Bat dem feren Rei An Mir sts gunil profehtor porgelegen. Beim! 817 An der Kommandant der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Prag Prag Betr.: Fie c h t n e r, Eugen, Oberlandrat in Iglau, W. geb. 22.9.1908 In Lichtenberg-Wuerttemberg, ecf., verh., I Kind, wohnh. Iglau. The Oberlandrat von Iglau, Eugen F iec h t n e r, has expressed various views on the question of the treatment of the Czechs, which are not understood by the Iglau population and in general seem hardly justified. F. considers that the Czechs constitute the vast majority of the population of Iglaus and that it is in the long run unacceptable to exclude the Czech from the management of the municipal business. A form must be found to involve them in this leadership. the Czechs did not dare to exclude the Germans from the leadership of the municipality even in the time of Czech rule. Instead, the Germans had been involved in the city council until the lD.3.39. Furthermore, Iglau would also have had a German mayoral representative. After the Czechs had been granted full autonomy after the Führer's decree, it would not be possible to carry out this decree and recognise to the Czech also in the autonomous self-governing bodies the appropriate influence on the leadership of the congregations. Oberlandrat Fiechtner stated some time ago that the Government Commissioner 42 CM