English Translation

168 This was to be served mainly by the land trades, whether by confiscation or by buying out, and the creation of model economic units, covered as well as as as military premises and training grounds, on whose territory the imperial laws were applicable (SS-Truppenübungsplatz-Böhmen). In this context, K.H.Frank, in his letter to the Wehrmacht agent in Prague of 18 December 1940, writes that he is putting considerable weight on early intensive participation in determining future military posts, owing to the immense importance of the national issue for the future formation of the Czech Moravian space and the national strengthening influence that the German military crews have in this case, while communicating for which they consider the crews to be desirable from a "nationally political point of view." In Moravia it should have been in German support points" Jihlava, Brno, Olomouc and Ostrava, also in places whose former, at least partial German character covered decades of efforts to Czechise, and in North Moravian border cities, but also elsewhere where "extraordinary national-political care is needed. (455) For its large-scale land policy, the creation of German supporting points and German land bridges and, above all, the expansion of German national land from north to Prague's suburbs, required by Frank in his memorial file from 28. In August 1940 (456), Frank received an important position in the autumn of 1941, when he was appointed as Himmler's deputy in the position of Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums - RKF, and the decisive powers for the implementation of the settlement policy were transferred to the SS at the expense of Wehrmacht. From the fund to which he was supposed to have at his disposal, he could draw subsidies - as Frank and Hitler wished - he could now do in Bohemia and Moravia, if possible, to purchase land generously. (457) But in the vast majority, instead of "land purchases" it was mostly in the form of forced administration. (458) More acceleration of confiscation prevented the fact that so far no settlers were available. Only in the spring of 1941, 500 to 600 Germans from Besarabia were first established in the Protectorate. (459) The pressure on the arrival of German settlers and the construction of so-called population bridges came from local Nazi officials.