STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1936, sig. 109-6/28 (damaged)

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October 9, 1939. O Steliungnabae zue Olea-Gebiets-Question. ts I oppose the return of the Dlsa area to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for three reasons: 1/ In political terms, a reclassification of the Olsa region to the protectorate would immediately lead to the inclusion in the autonomy of the Protectorates of the local population, which consists largely of Czechs or at least Czech-Tob friendly Slavic sections of the population. In addition, the NS would immediately begin to organise in this area and would include the population fully in the party's political organization of 8409 hours. On the other hand, we must have an inter- 2Y L esse on the far-sighted view that the Tscnech peoples will be separated from the İsheca people's body in order to be able to absorb the unogos in the non-autonon area of the empire more easily. For this reason, it is not likely that this population of 009 8 will be awarded the status of protectorate-state-songs- 6 DU teetwt.•et nob R8X CWOT BOTGU 2/ In economic terms, this Göbiet undoubtedly tends towards Moravian-East and I would not object to the above-mentioned reasons if it unites with the Moravian Ostrava region, but both would be transferred together to the Old Kingdom, so that the Moravians-Ostrava area would also be excluded from the Protectorate. This would by no means constitute an obstacle to the continued flow of coal supplies from these areas into the Protectorate by means of special regulations.