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

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15 - 3 - Armaments industries are already won for such projects, do not follow that these Czech newcomers are to be Germanized in the shortest time (in less than 10 years) by strict Germanic measures. Firstly, this period seems optimistic to me, and secondly, before an accurate racial inventory, no one can judge whether we want to Germanize the newcomers at all. At the rate of the recruitment of Czech workers, thousands of racially inferior and blood-indigestible 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 I take into account the prudence and importance of armaments and if I 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 erected at all in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, - not in the German interest area at the threatened ethnic border, but only in the Czech inner Bohemia, best in the vicinity of Prague, south and eastwards from Prague (the big city - 4 -