English Translation

29 M $.d. Mr. S taa tss e kre tär L112.40. At the request of 22 January 1940. On 18 January 1940, a hearing was held at the Reichsarbeitsministerium, which was requested by Gau Sudetenland for the purpose of discussing the angle of wages of the Protectorate. The negotiations were attended by representatives of the Ministry of the Interior, the Finance Ministry, the Ministry for Labour, the Reich Commissioner for Prizes; from the Sudetengau the deputy Gauleiter and Reichstreuhänder of the work of Cologne and the deputy Reichstrühände of the Arbeit Stucke;from the Reichsprotektor Ministerialrat Dr. Dennler and I. The meeting was chaired by Ministerial Director Dr. Mansfeld of the Reichsarbeitsministerium. First, I dealt with the current level of wages in the Protectorate. Then, the deputy head of Cologne represented the position of the Sudetengau. He explained that, according to the daily reports, the vote among the people's Germans of the Protectorates was devastating. In the Protectorate there was a caste of Germans, the Reich Germans and the officials of the Reich Protector, while the People's Germans felt that they were second-class Germans. He presented a report from the local group Prag-Karolinental to the NsDAP, which claimed that lo2 members of the localgroup earned a large number below 40 RM per month, and that none of them earned more than 100 RM a month. This was necessary so that the protectorate of the Sudetengau did not take away the export as was already the case with the textile and glass industry. Nor was it correct that the arms contracts all went into the protectorates, while the Sudotengau went out empty. This too was due only to the low wages of the Protectorate. He said that the Gau Sudetenland had to demand that the Czechs be placed in a worse position than the People's Germans, V C3