STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 920, sig. 109-4/673

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S - 2 - he could be noticed, but after being deliberately suppressed by him. A partial dissatisfaction, especially about social relations, was expressed in him in various ways, especially since he showed a special sensitivity in it. This can be explained from his ambition, in. his life, to want to accomplish even greater tasks than they were given to him. The limits imposed on the official in it were of course impossibility to improve economically. As a criminal secretary, he had had to impose restrictions on his attitude to life with his three children and his wife. This dissatisfaction, once manifested, was nourished almost daily by his profession, because in interrogations and investigations, personal experiences with the great earners of our time continued and their attitude and political "reliability" was clearly demonstrated. W i n t e r b o r has also left nothing unturned in order to make progress through his own drive. For example, when he set up a protective service for the visit of the Reichsminister R u st on 6.9.1941, he got Fehlung with the rector of the local university and talked with him about questions of further training of progress. The Reltor strongly encouraged him to apply for the studies of the gifted person. Therefore, W i n t e r b o r has taken back speech at the University and submitted an application with all subjects on 15.9.1994l. On 16.9.1994 this application was already accepted. However, Wi n t a r b e r had shot himself in the evening on 15.09.1941. From a personal conversation with him, his director of the department knows that he seriously expected that he could get to a significant point in a few years' time, possibly by denouncing the government council. His head of the service made it clear to him, comradely speaking, that he should not push his hopes too high, so as not to be too disappointed in the palle of a failure. W i n t e r b o r then replied that he no longer believes in another way to move forward; for even with the greatest unity and political idealism, within the civil servants the