STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1951, sig. 109-6/43

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30 - 2 - so that the People's German could also feel as a lord's people. He welcomed a proposal by the Reich head of the German Labour Front Dr. Ley to the deputy of the leader, who called for an Reichsschutzvergabe of the Czechs of 20% of the loan to compensate for the compulsory military service of the Peoples' Germans for the party, DAF and party divisions. Mansfeld explained that Dr. Ley's proposal was written down to all ministries and that the ministries welcomed the proposal. He will bring it up in the next few days in the General Council. I replied to Dr. Köllner's words that the mood of the people's Germans is by no means as bad as Dr. Köllner argues that the people's Germans are being helped in the economy,where it is only at stake that the mood among the peoples' Germans is being served by the Czech state, especially by the People's German teachers, but this is not due to the Reichsprotector, but to the fact that the Ministry of Finance rejects the proposals of the Reich's protector. I proposed paying the Volksdeutsche Lehrer and the teachers still needed from the Reich from Berlin according to Reichssets and the proportion which would correspond to the sentences of the Czech teacherry to be recovered from the Czech State.The representatives of the Ministry of Finance agreed to present this plan to their minister again. The representatives of the Ministry of Labour, the Interior Ministry and the Prize Commissioner immediately approached the plan. I further stated that I could not recognise the list of the Karolinental Crts group, that the wage of the lowest assistant worker in Prague was RM o.45 the hour, so that even if the lo2 party members were all auxiliary workers, no one could earn under lo0 RM per month. I was also of the opinion that the adjustment of wages could not take place because a certain wage gap had to remain. Dr. Ley's proposal had not been received by the Reichsprotector so far, so that I could not comment. But I consider the amount of the Reichsschutzgabe as a political impossibility that by the worker who is now doing his duty, he would be made an enemy without exception and that with greater sabotage,