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

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61 -6- of the supply principle, it was possible to speak with these parents in the Czech state of a political leadership layer, although in negative directions. By the car rental of the officers etc. However, an element in civil servants' bodies was now widened which merely assumed that the state had the damn duty and guilt to ensure that it would continue to exist and that they did not need to exert themselves in the appropriate way, since it was finally the state that had pulled them out of their previous career. If the normal Czech civil servant type was already petty and with little initiative, now more a directly sabotaging shift arrived in the civil servant body, which naturally affected the other servants contagious. If one finds such a general average among the military personnel, then only the rule is confirmed here by the exception, if a number has struck quite well and is still quite well usable today. It is not to be forgotten that the disembarkation regulation only removed at a rather late stage those military personnel who were least satisfied with the demands and had already had a devastating effect among their counterparts. It is clear that the level of the Czech civil servants was still considerably reduced in the years 1939-1940, since this lazy element was not opposed to an activist high-profile Boam .tentum of old embodiment. Thus developed out of this mixture of Czech officials, as we have it today. As the head of the district, I have to point out time and again the particular difficulties that lie less often in the evil will than in the absolutely inadequate spiritual training of these people. The political element, or rather, sabotage intentions can be eliminated at least at the time with the larger part of the beantenschaft. Although this fact is not due to a real conversion, it is based on fear and purely material hopes, which are now the main points of sickness where we have to start, in order to make the Czech civil service fundamentally out of date.