STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 35, sig. 109-1/39 Page 8 · 8 of 26
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 35, sig. 109-1/39
English Translation
4a will stress how beneficial it is to German reputation when a capable German businessman takes over a significant Jewish business here. I am thinking, for example, of an Ing.Richter, who recently bought a Jewish laundry factory in Bistritz a.Host. In the near future, the company was able to take over the business and, through social justice, broke out its Czech following, to which he is regarded as an exemplary employer. Similar attitudes have been set up by the aryanization of the well-known schnapps distilleries in Wisowitz. The prerequisite for this development of a German base is, however, the local presence of the owner with his family, the knowledge of the land conditions or yet the honest will to acquire this knowledge, and the intention to shape his future here. The exact opposite, i.e. a blemishing of the German reputation, is achieved by those aryanization hyenas, who let the object exploit by some commissioner. The foreign-language population was once again subordinated to the fever scale of changing moods in the month under review. Japan's entry into war seemed to be an unexpected blow, even more Japanese initial successes. In the last days, malicious rumours about German withdrawal movements in the East are spread again. I am aware that the number of people who would actually want the Bolsheviks to enter this area is not too large. Quite the opposite are the farmers and businessmen. In the great mass, the workers would also prefer a social order in the sense of the Third Reich to the Soviet system. It would have to be our task to create an atmosphere of continuity here. But as the rumors of mass emigration continue to spit after the war, the mass naturally advises into a nihilistic mentality, it is nourished by the Czech Intelligence,