STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1781, sig. 109-5/9 Page 23 · 23 of 120
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1781, sig. 109-5/9
English Translation
23 - 2 - be only a soldier. For this reason he was also approved of the Lord Reich Protector. The situation of the Czech government has now been affected by the fact that in the last few days a plethora of German regulations, orders and wishes has been imposed on them: Aryanization Decree, State Defence Act, Language Decree, the establishment of government commissioners in the German cities and the dissolution of the existing municipal parliaments, the introduction of the obligation to work and the like. It has become very quiet, and it seems that it is in a very shocking mood, and the situation in order to impose further demands in the light of this mood is favourable. I therefore use the opportunity to direct your attention again to the questions of the diatian soil policy in the Protectorate. The point of view that neither the party nor the office of the Lord Reich Protector can deal with an active land policy is fully appreciated. I do not think it was very happy that the Aryanization Ordinance of Jewish land and forest property was included and the description of the corresponding Jewish property was ordered. The Czech press reacted immediately with the claim that the starting point for a German soil policy was to be sought and recognized here. I would therefore like to take the view that German soil policy is not the subject of legislative activity in the Protectorate, but rather that the approaches in this direction will be eradicated and prevented in the future. It seems to me that it is more correct to have German land policy through Sections VIII and IX of the Czech Ministry of Agriculture, which, as we know, are administered by SS-Oberführer v._Gottberg, Berlin, acting on behalf of our