English Translation

l.L-V1/h1 3 15 Report from Sillein. l-/_Public_Administration: Up to now there is no official representative in the municipal hall, but the local mayor has announced to the local head of the D.P. that the Germans will enter the municipal hall with 2-3 mandates in the next time. /Promotion/ The district administration is cleaned by Czechs and is managed purely Slovak. The Slovak military is only commanded by the Slovak officers and today is only one abbot. Field artillery under the coming of a major. 2_Minorities,_Internal political situation: The German group in Sillein was summarized on 6 Dec. 1938 in the German Party. Until then, Sillein had only a very small local group of the cultural association / cca.20 members /. The Sillein local group of the De tschen party counts today cca.650 members and includes comrades in Cadea, Waag-Bystritz, Puchoy, Rutka. Furthermore, the local groups were co-founded: Turciansky-Sv.Martin and Rosenberg. The number of applications is constantly growing. The influence of the Germans had also made itself felt in public and economic life by the reasons given by the German local groups. The Hlinka-Garde, especially with its leader Anton Maly, Sillein, at the head, came to us very friendly in every respect from the first day. During the days of the battle of March 10 to 15, a exemplary cooperation was recorded in the Sillein area. The Hlinka Guard deprived its leaders - / from the Sillein area were brought 87 Hlinka commanders to Brno-Spielberg / - asked the German Party for the leadership. FS and DP also held the Hlinka House (formerly cschech. It is clear that, in addition to political cooperation, the economic side was also taken into account. In a mutual connexion with the HG, around 30% of German representatives (comnissary directors) were ordered in Sillein for Jewish-Czech business (with a population of about 5% Germans in Sillein.)