STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1975, sig. 109-6/67

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6-6 The education and instruction of the 1⁄2 recruits begins to be noticed. It goes down with him ebèn. He comes, as it is said, on the wrong path and not infrequently these people then commit misconducts, which must result in severe punishments. For example, the many cases of flag flight and illegal removal often have their reason that the men in question could not come along in the service or do services that they could not cope with after their training. Particular patience and also a high degree of understanding are in the training of the Germanic volunteers at the platsze. One must always remember that they come into a completely new environment for them and not bring the equipment, as is usually the case with the German 4 recruits. They must first be introduced into the - community. It is therefore completely wrong to give them a sharp touch at the beginning of their training in things that they simply have not brought with them or can understand, or even to make them a reproach for the lack of knowledge or skills, which alone has its reason in that they grew up in an environment that is alien to us. These mistakes in the education of German volunteers are only difficult or usually not at all to make up for. This is not to say that the German volunteers should be treated softly, for example. Hardness, however, is only there on the plate where it belongs. There the man also wants to have hardness and not be softly touched. For this reason, leaders who are soft in the upbringing of men are not weeded, but are respected and loved as a rule only the strict but just leader. From these considerations a military leader must be guided, especially in the worldly education of men. The world view gives the 4-man first of all the attitude and allowed him to perform in peace as well as in war performances, which we can all be proud of. For the ideological orientation of the young recruit it is not so important that they get to hear German history with history numbers. It depends on the fact that they learn to feel and think 4-moderately. In order to be able to do this, they must first be informed of what it represents. 5 It must be made clear to them that it is a conspiratorial community composed of a selection of Nordic people and that the care of the old Germanic custom and thought has become a special principle. Therefore, the 4 - like every order - has its basic laws. These must gradually pass into the flesh and blood of the young man. Above all, this applies to the basic set about the sanctity of property. To understand, the young recruits must be told how the old Germans thought about property offences, and that the high view of the being 83