THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13

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Zh-12 - The administrative sector must be taken into account as a fact and it is unnecessary to take it into account. It should be said quite openly, how one csche- t sa it means: "I put my trust in you, Czechs, and therefore let you carry out the tasks that are to be done to me, But I cannot trust you too much, therefore I let the tasks be formally carried out institutionally by your autonomous administration, but in fact I will have them carried out by my German officials. "One must therefore be aware that with the establishment of the Reich's order administration it was not possible to bring us closer to the Czechs.The installation of Germans in leading ideas was also not suitable for this, and otherwise nevertheless agile Czechs prepared to cooperate will also have been repulsed. In this respect, there is a rumor that Minister of the Interior, Bienert, is already expected to resign because, following the appointment of a German President, who is at the same time his representative, he feels that he is in fact cold in his ministry and that a German police president is appointed to Prague, as well as the establishment of German Vice-Presidents. In this respect, we must not give ourselves any illusions, but the positive aspect of the reconstruction is on a different level. There is now no longer the Oberlandrüte as the rich's own authorities and the autonomous authorities side by side, but there is a need to carry out the day-to-day administrative work.