English Translation

344 B e r i c h t on the current state of the investigations concerning the arrested officials of the IXth Section of the Ministry of Agriculture /Bodenamt/. Immediately after the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, it proved indispensable to place the IXth section of the Ministry of Agriculture, which is the former Czechoslovak State Land Office, under the supervision of the secret state police. This h o c h p o l i t i s c h e o n t h e s t h a t h i n t i o n a t i n g a n d i n s t i on t h o r a n t a t e s i n a n g u l i n d e a t o n d o n s i o r t i c o n c o m i n c t i t h u r e a l i c t h t i a n c i n i n o n g e r a t a n a s t e a n s a t s t o f o n o m m m e n t o m e r t h y i n e s a n o r s t a l a t t i v e a r t o r e s o r o m b e r e r o r i n b e a s i t a r a r e t i r a s a r i t e n d a n v e r i c e c o r v e p t i l a r o n i c i t o v e t h h e t a c o v i s i s t s i on a t , i on s t t h , a t r e c e s s i a t on t i d i on d i o v a t in t i b e d i t s a s e s on a n on t a d i s a c i on v i on r e d a t u i on i on on t e on t o t i e s e a c e d e s to a t . The fact that this view was only too calculable was subsequently clearly demonstrated when the Czechs met with new - colonization plans, e.g. in Laun, Munichgrätz, etc. The Czechs opposed these state police measures to the strongest resistance, because they did not believe they could give up their twenty-year Czechization work. As soon as the international situation was expected to change, all possible means were tried to complicate the work of the German authorities. Although all support was provided by the section head Dr. N o v a k and Ministorialrat Ing. P a v e 1, it was found that officials received information only on explicitly formulated questions, and this in such a crowded form,