English Translation

The publication on 24.12.1943 on the pay balance of Czech public servants with effect from l.l.l944 found a mixed reception in the reports available here. While, on the one hand, the salary balance was taken up with satisfaction and, through it, there was a noticeable improvement in the financial situation, one often encounters the announcement made with mistrust and warns against optimism with the fy indication that a 20-percent improvement would be of no use if one did not know when and where the money would be deducted again. A substantial improvement due to the announced salary compensation would hardly be noticeable, lip2 as the inflation allowances would be lifted, but the deductions from the basic salaries increased by the salary premium would be increased again. This conjecture, therefore, had caused some disappointment among the public servants, since they had promised to align themselves with the salaries paid in the Reich, and according to numerous statements by civil servants, the announced salary equal would therefore not play a special role as a result of the multiple increases in the cost of all persons and items. The only beneficiaries would be those of the high officials who had always been primarily concerned. Moreover, only the Germans would be paid a high salary today. This can be seen only from the fact that Czechs, who are familiar with the German language - 5 -