STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 268, sig. 109-4/10

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SD section Karlovy Vary Karlovie Vary, 4.11.194o. III/5. Th/Ne. It was the time when a large number of people went into the administration.Many intellectuals were needed in the Austrian administration,the Textilindustrie was built up in the Sudetengau and in the German language a withdrawal from the ground and a shift to official posts developed.The construction of the industry did not take care of the Välkische Be- lange and caught up with the workers after the profit-seen.Reichenberg,Hohenstadt,Brüx and Dux were so infiltrated by Czech workers and apprentices and journeymen invaded the area. This infiltration was halted at the time of the Czech rule, since all measures were aimed at the destruction of German industry in the Sudetenland, which had placed in Sudetensland 7% of the textile industry and 90% of the linen industry from all Austria, and after the overthrow in the much smaller Czech states, a large unemployment naturally occurred.The masses of the unemployed were ready for work at all costs and prevented the further infiltra- tion by the Czechs and so it came to pass that the Czech,despite being masters in the state, could not achieve any significant advantages in the German margins. What the questioners managed to do was overshadowed by Czech officials, but we did not have to worry about it.They probably gave the workers leaders, but these elements remained a minority and disappeared immediately when the light of the Third Reich came up.