STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1780, sig. 109-5/8 (damaged)

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10 2 - especially since these are settled in their own modern workers' settlements with family (number of workers times four, for example 50 000 people, Budweis today about 40 000 inhabitants, among them about 10 000 Germans). In the political planning for the return of space and people in the Protectorate certain German interest zones are planned. also Pilsen, Bud-weis and Brünn, all cities with strong German minorities at the ethnic border. If the proposed industrial plans were to be implemented with Czech workers, German places on the so delicate national border, where every German farm and farm site has been fought for for centuries, would therefore be censured to the greatest extent. In all these places, the newly settled Czech people lean towards a down-to-earth tradition, which is consistently militant borderlerism. We National Socialists, in this case, make purely economic interests into what we have been heavily burdened with in the past decades by the liberal capitalist big industry, when it settles and czechizes the cheaper wages because of the technical masses of labor in the German country (Brüx, Dux, Hohenstadt, etc.). I have the most serious political concerns about the implementation of this action and object to it. I can also agree with the opinion of the Gauleiters concerned, who of the - 3 -