English Translation

53 I. The development of the Czech civil servant body. When in March 1939 the German administration entered the Protectorate with the German troops, the security police and the SD, it found an administrative system in the Protectorates, which was mainly based on the old Austrian administration. However, the large-scale conditions of the old Danube monarchy had been taken over by the Czech state without it developing its own ideas and creating a new type. The torn conditions in the Czech state brought with it rather a distortion of the old civil servant type, which had without doubt proven itself in the Habsburg monarchy and also partly influenced the foreign-völkish civil servants of that state favourably. Today, we can find this out again and again to those Czech officials who have served in the Austrian period and who, on average, still have a more correct and better view of the service than the normal later official. By the artificial inflating attempts of the Entente and its helpers in the Czech state, the Czech State was definitely to acquire the status of a great power. In the correct recognition that Czechoslovakia was a multi-ethnic state, it was now necessary to create a leadership apparatus for the practical implementation of this desire for power, which should be composed as uniformly as possible from Czech communities. Without this leadership class of Czech nati•nality, it was not possible to master these areas in the foreign-völkish spaces after the doubtless correct insight of the then rulers. If at that time the officers had been promoted in the foreign-völkish areas, i.e. in the Sudeten area, in Slovakia and in the Hungarian parts, in the same way as the Czech officials, the self-life of these peoples would undoubtedly have been promoted also in the state organizational view. This has been avoided in principle by using the remaining foreign forces and, if possible, by engaging them in their own state operations.