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

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11 - 3 - Armaments industries are already won for such projects, not to be joined by the fact that these Czech newcomers are to be Germanized in the shortest price (in less than 10 years) by strict Germanization measures. Firstly, this period seems optimistic to me, secondly, no one can agree on whether we want to Germanize the newcomers at all before a new racial inventory. At the rate of recruitment of technical workers, thousands of racially inferior and bloodless types come into the settlement. Gauleiter and armaments industrialists rely on the decree of the Reichsmarschall of 3.2.1941, concerning the employment situation. The decree states that "foreign workers are to be taken in to the greatest extent possible, with population and racial concerns at present. Even if we take into account the semantic nature and importance of armaments and if we recognise the primacy of the defence process, I am of the opinion that: 1. Armaments important new buildings with Czech staff, - if they have to be raised in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia - not in the German area of interest at the threatened ethnic border, but only in the Czech inner Bohemia, best in the vicinity of Prague between south and east of Prague (the big city - 4 -