STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1775, sig. 109-5/3

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0C - 2 - The generally difficult situation of the Steu Germans has recently been made more difficult by economic boycott of the worst kind, and the boycott is also increasingly spreading to the country, to which the influx of townspeople into the country due to their holidays is contributing substantially. Active folk work is still one of the most important tasks in the Protectorate. In the present wartime, measures can not always be implemented on a large scale, which bring about the sustainable success of Germanism, but it is often the laborious little work of the day, with which successes of the Deutschen Pasition can be achieved, One of the main branches of successful Germanism work In the Protectorate, the German civil servants and employees' policy is a failure. All efforts in this area have been condemned to failure by the insurmountable half-way gap between the Reich and the Protectorates. It was in the long run an untenable condition that the German official remaining here in October l938 receives a much lower salary in the Protectors' Administration than his professional comrade, who had gone to the Sudetenland and later returned to the Protectorate, was also unsuccessful in any attempt to persuade officials from the Reich to enter the Protectorates administration or the municipal service, as a result of the exceptionally low salaries paid there, this obstacle could now be removed,In lengthy negotiations with the The Minister for Finance has reached a fundamental agreement that the public service of the Protectorate Administration should have a compensatory allowance equal to the difference between their remuneration in the Protectorates on the one hand and the remunerations, the equivalent Reichs official under Reichssol-dungsrecht, on the other hand, should receive public servants in the Federal Republic of Germany. For the purposes of this Agreement, staff shall be employed in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation on the legal relationships of former Czechoslovak public servants in the Estendeutscher Gebiets vomtl9,l0,1939 (Sudetenverordnung). The amount of the difference is determined by the Reichsprotektor, His decision is final.