English Translation

94 Excerpt from the administrative report of the Oberlandrat Königgrätz of 2 July 1940 ____/__ The city is inhabited by about 35.oo chauvinistic Czechs, who do not have 700 German /women and children included / against. There is no single German business and no German restaurant. For more than a year - as far as they were involved in the occupation of the Sudetengaue, for almost two years - the officials have been living separately from the wife and child in Czech hotels. As far as the hotel dwelling is concerned, or as a result of the measures of the Reichsfinanzmini- sterium, they live in rural families with which they cannot speak. The rich German paying small civil servants is completely isolated and also self-reliant. In fact, only the cinema, which plays German plays from time to time, in which the civil servants, avoided by the Czechs, are only spectators together with German soldiers. In these circumstances, it is a great praise to the civil servants that they have so far held themselves blameless - especially as regards the consumption of alcohol. There is no social traffic outside the service, for example to relax on Saturday afternoons or on Sundays, for the rich German civil servants. The good Czech society has understanding of the situation of German officials; it invites the officials to the evening - St. S. ' of ar d -2- zü