English Translation

A b s ch r i f t ! The relocation of Czech farmers in the neighbouring protectorate area, has an adverse effect on the Czechs living in the Gau Oberdonau on the border. In recent weeks Czech farmers have been displaced in the protectorate villages of Kreiteschekau, Neudorf, Krassettin and Berlau, which are situated on the Gau border, without the apparently sufficiently propagandistic justification of this action over the rest of the Czech population. This measure, as a report from the Strichitzer language area shows, was the cause of great bitterness and depression among the Czech border population of that area. Among other things, a Czech farmer, who should also be expatriated, declared that he could only be removed from his farm as a corpse. Most Czechs believe that they can withdraw from the resettlement by professing Germanism. In order to achieve this, they try to involve farmers' leaders and mayors of the neighbouring Gauge region (Oberdonau) for their interests.rov To this end, it should be pointed out that even those Czechs who have not yet been threatened with resettlement no longer carry on their economies in the usual manner so far, since they too fear that they will soon lose their farm "and that their work will then have been futile." These Czechs see themselves strengthened in their fears by the statements of some German people, "that this is only the beginning and that all other Czechs will also come to their turn". According to the Land Council of a border county, the resettlement campaign was not sufficiently prepared in a propagandistic way. In his view, it is absolutely necessary to make it clear that only those Czechs who have violated the provisions of the war economy are to be expelled, that the resettlement should therefore be regarded as a punishment for their behaviour, in order to prevent any further negative effect on the Czechs in terms of their mood and, on the other hand, to encourage the Czech farmers to increase their labour performance. The opinion of a Land Council, expressing its views on the success of this action, is literally cited: b.w.