English Translation

In addition to political reasons, there was also a legitimate concern above all about the large seizure of Czech officials returning home. At that time, a breakdown of the civil servants in men in the 60th year of age was established. The official apparatus, as already mentioned, consisted largely of party book offices when the Protectorate was established, and the so-called legionaries were added, with special advantages in terms of promotion and employment in the public service. The legionaries, as carriers of the will to resist Germanism, appeared to be able to enforce with Czech-nationalist spirit and therefore found admission to all state positions even despite lack of control and not passed state examination. In addition to these two types of civil servants, behind which the politically colourless civil servants added a further type, at least with regard to the protection of the Protectorate, which also posed special risks. The dissolution of the Czech Wehrmacht gave rise to the need to transfer the former professional officers to another occupation. They were mainly taken over in the public service as civil servants or as temporary servants and have proved themselves very differently here. In detail, this will be discussed later. As already said, the Czech civil servants' apparatus was overstaffed in 1939. For this purpose, a small number of Czech officials may have come back to the interior of Bohemia and Moravia: 1.) In addition to the connection of the Sudeten forces, 47,000 Czech officials returned to the inner part of Bohemia, and Moravia, 2.) Another 25.Oc0 Czech officials came to the internal part after the separation of the Slevakei, the Karpath• Ukraine and the Olsa region, as only a small part of Czech staff remained in Slovakia, 3.) After the dissolution of the Czech armed forces, a further 20.000 professional military personnel had to remain in the autonomous armed forces.