STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1781, sig. 109-5/9

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- 5- 56 with German officials and employees is making further progress. Thus, two leaders - Obersturmbannführer Schubert and ObersturabannFührer Dr. Schwabe - were installed in the state authorities of Bohemia and Moravia as state vice-presidents. After lengthy negotiations with the Reichsfinanzministerium (Ministry of Finance) the necessary adaptation to the Reich's salary in the form of a pensionable compensation allowance could also be ensured according to the principle. Cooperation with the party liaison office leaves much to be desired. There is a lack of sufficient information, so that the impression arises as if the liaison office places value on its own work, as uninformed as possible by the office of the Reichsprotektor.j-Brigadeführer Gauleiter Dr. The jury is not approved, but rather its representative, who has an interest - personally understandable - in recording a number of successful decisions for the liaison office in the beginning of his initiative.The work of the party itself suffers in the protectorate partly from a pronounced full-time shortage of personnel and partly. among them, that - for example in the cultural field - not always a factual line adapted to the popular struggle is adhered to, but rather the wish to make the activity appear strongly from a personal point of view. The work of the HJ is carried out through the war. I have the impression, however, that the HJ's afterlife in the protectorate is good and grows up without any signs of decomposition. The expansion of German cultural life in the Protectorate laughs thanks to the accommodating attitude of the Reichspropa- s t e dt succeeded in maintaining the Sudeten German Philharmonic Orchestra as a German symphony orchestra in Prague and thus the Protectorates through considerable grants from the Reich's Propaganda Milisterium.