STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1157, sig. 109-4/911

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17 August 1943. 4-Ogruf. 8t.8. 392/297/43. 1.) To Mr. 1 8. VII, 1343 Gauamtaleiter ooddd coe rreqreetter Gauleitung. E Dear Party Genoese Dr. Portele ! In Saohen des Perteigenossen Dr. Schmuck part ioh in the follow-up to the letter of 2.7.d. Js. - sign St.S. 297/43 that I cannot decide, after detailed examination of the case, to use Dr. Schmuck in the Protectorate. gyerdst jewelry acquitted in the resurgence procedure and it has thus been restored its civic honor. I consider it politically highly inappropriate, however, to install jewellery in Kladno in a leading position. Such a measure would open the door and door to the technical whisper propaganda, and would also give the Czech opposition Anlàß, which is particularly strong in Kladno, to passive resistance. I think it is more correct to have jewellery once again demonstrated its administrative and attitude-like appearance outside of the Sudetengaue, a view which would make the