STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 35, sig. 109-1/39 Page 20 · 20 of 26
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 35, sig. 109-1/39
English Translation
M - 3 - completely demolished and strong ties were established to the state headquarters in Prague. I have often asked myself whether, after the war, we will be able to occupy the local area, which is truly a heart of the Great German Empire, completely with Germans. I had to deny this question time and again with regard to the fact that this area requires a particularly dense settlement in order to preserve its economic capacity. By the way, LUEBOL can only be said of a backwardness of the agriculture and SO of the commercial economy here insofar as the enormous development of the Third Reich has not yet been followed up and cannot be completely recovered during the war. According to my observations, despite a plethora of anti-state individual acts, there is no fundamental aversion among the masses of peasants, workers and traders to classify themselves with the Great German idea. The general tension stems from the thought that one can do it as one would like and would not be able to do it right for the Germans, no one is safe on his plaice, on his job, in his work place. It is therefore necessary to offer the people a clear chance for the future, which consists in ensuring their existence in the event that they are willing to rise in the Great German Reich. It will be very difficult to give the intelligence layer an equal assurance, since it was the bearer of the Slavic thought and is still heavily burdened by the world view. But here, too, kei- BO S3102 91 ne radical solutions can be found, because a large S3 LUEU number of native intellectuals such as doctors, veterinary surgeons, pharmacists, engineers, subaltern officials, senior employees, cannot be deprived of BOT for a long time. For a systematic Germanization of further strata of the foreign-speaking population, I do not see any insurmountable