STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 461, sig. 109-4/206

Page 40

English Translation

- 26 - bE Völkisch-chauvinist national ideals of the Croats would not be expected for at least the next decades to be taken seriously political and Völkische Irredenta. The members of the ethnic-cultural and thus political support of the German strata are to be stopped, only Germans to be called. The undeniable relative political reliability of the Croats probably causes them to treat the Germans equally economically and politically with restrictions, but does not yet mean that we also measured them as Germans. n) Windic and Slovenes.For reasons of national and political policy, we distinguish between the windic and the Slovenians, both of whom are located in the south of the Gaue Steiermark and Carinthia.The small Slovenian minority (about l2 O0o) is not eligible for Germanization, since a real change of population could only be expected from sparse strata. The Windische (30-32 O00), on the other hand, are in general a German-Slovenian intermediate layer, the origin of which is partly due to the success of Slovenianization in the German Southern Styria during and after the counter-reformation. The majority of the Windsies are similar to the Germans, since a real repopulation of the majority of Windsians, especially of the manual and peasant classes, is to be expected, there are no considerations against reliefs of the German-Germanization racially. However, it should be tried, the falsely repopulated parts, which are to be estimated on perhaps 1/3 to 1/4, especially the so-called so- called. "Windish winegrowers", to leave windy and foreign-völkish and, if necessary, to resettlement.