English Translation

79 "New Germans" or "Bömáci" (180) also met with contempt of the Czech population due to their tendency to demonstrate their new nationality in a wild and disgusting way, as described by the Zlín Oberlandrat. Czechs were rightly afraid that they were agents of the Gestapo. (181) One of the situational reports about the conditions in the Protectorate depicts the case of a certain official who became a "German": Dr. Hudec, the administrative commissioner /at the Ministry of the Interior/, is a Czech who came to the office one beautiful day and greeted everyone with a greeting of Heil Hitler. Colleagues thought it was a joke and made fun of him. Hudec told them in all seriousness that he is now German and wishes his colleagues to greet him with a Greeting. When it turned out to be serious, everyone stopped talking to him, it completely destroyed Hudce and had to be taken away to the asylum/ to Bohnice. (182) The truth is that not all the new Germans were "Gesindel" and "waste." "With the Nazi government firmly settling throughout the continent, many esteemed Germans felt logical to become German. Postal, railway and other civil servants asked for German citizenship because of career progress and better salary. In other cases, they were worried about the reduction of Czech bureaucracy: when they became Germans, they kept their seats. Reich citizens received different allocation tickets than the citizens of the Protectorate.... ...The Germans were acquiring shops and apartments stolen from Jews. More and more people became Germans in order to gain the benefits of members of the Nazi Party and other empires." (183) Chad Bryant writes. (183). According to the ÚŘP Directive, top country councils and local party leaders were to examine "moral behavior and political behavior," "personal achievements," "characteristic racial traits" and "German blood," but this criterion was not specifically specified in relation to the "race" and the "blood." On the other hand, the real net for calculating candidates for Reich citizenship was primarily a conscription which was attached to this status. Anyone who faked ill health to avoid it as a Reich citizen, ended up in prison or was assigned to hard work. (184)