STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23

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123 - 2 - In Wesenz, which is inhabited by 220 Germans and 380 Czechs, the government commissioner has had to call the district court in Polna 2 trustmen, who are to be used on a case-by-case basis for the perception of the land register interests of the property owners residing there. Although most of the landowners are Czechs and are mainly non-political, only Germans were designated. On the reference to the patrol of the Dt.Gend.-Kdos.D.-Brod that the government commissioner also had to take care of the interests of the Czechs, he explained that he would then have to expect inconsistencies on the part of the party and the German population. In Illemnik - Sehrlenz / 112 Germans, 343 Czechs / the government commissioner demanded the removal of the designation "čislo", which stands in front of the house numbers. In response to an intervention which had become necessary, he was told that he could first of all request the additional mention of the German name "No." and, if he does not want to be complied with, the removal of the Czech representation. As far as was known here, the German pensioners and pensioners are in a great emergency situation. Pensions and pensions have not yet been improved and are not in any way adapted to current living conditions. Pensioners and pensioners are at present so badly off that they have to sell jewels in order to defend their livelihoods. The sale of jewelry hits pensioners and pensioners very hard, because the jewels are in part very valuable and have great value as a souvenir for the sellers. Nevertheless, these people fail - 3 -