STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2101, sig. 109-7/108

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Reichsarbeitsdienst Arbeitsgan XxxvIII. Prague, August 12, 1942. The Arbeitsgauführer Lecture /V to the State Secretary, SS Group Leader K.H. Fr a n k on August 12th 1942. 1.) The Herr Reichs Arbeitsführers agreed to include certain years of protectorate members as volunteers on the next possible date in the Reichsjobsdienst. 2.) The Herr Reichsarbeitsführer asks the enclosed vow, which is used for the other non-German members of the Reichs Arbeitsdienst, to also approve for the Protectorate. 3.) I would ask you to agree to the question of uniform with regard to the swastika binding.The Herr Reichsarbeitsführer would like to make no exception for the Protectorate.He has no political concerns from the experience in other countries. 4.) The Herr Reichsarbeitsführer has instructed me to inform the Secretary of State that part of the Reichs Arbeitsdienst departments of my Gaues will remain in the front line, so that different camps will not be occupied over winter.If a large number of volunteers report, the Herr Reicher Arbeitsförder is ready to transfer or command departments from the Reich to the Protectorate. I am instructed to communicate this subject to reservation,