STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 586, sig. 109-43333

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National Socialist German Workers' Party Gauleitung Niederdonau The Special Envoy To the Gauleiter Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, Czerninpalais. - Our Zeihen: Schr/We Your sign: Brno, en.. 29-September..1.39. XXVIII-3505 Rennergafsse 18/l, telex: 14-5-74 Subject: Convening of People's Germans to the Wehrmacht. The Wehrmacht has almost completed the design of the years of compulsory military service.After consultation with the local Wehrbezirkskommando, however, there are no orders when and where the conscripts must be placed. So far, only a few people's Germans have been drawn, who volunteered for the Air Force.These people' s Germans leave for Silesia in garrisons. Of course, the people's Germans must satisfy their compulsory military service and they would also be very angry about it if they were to be denied their military service.However, I see a certain danger for the first time with the placement of the peoples' Germans in garrisons of the Reich.People's Germanmen who come to the Reich now see during their service the high wages and other good income conditions in the Old Reich.For them, it is obvious that the temptation not to return to the Protectorate after their service obligations have been fulfilled. I would therefore be grateful to you for your opinion, whether it does not seem appropriate to accommodate the People's Germans of the Protectorate in garrisons of the protectorate area, or ./. 1v, 84