STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1774, sig. 109-5/2

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2 carried out together with the HG and called Germans also in the state service by our participation. Hungarians: The Hungarians run the old propaganda / Stefansreich /. In recent times they issued flight tickets that the Waagtal including Sillein falls to Germany, but the rest of the part should fall to Hungary. c d d did very unpopular in Ukraine. The Hungarian minority is very small in Silleiner Kreis, however, there are some Hungarian landowners who now have to step down from the Hungarian-occupied part of the territory of Slovakian refugees. Poles work with flight tickets on the whole border, especially in Cadca, in the Arva, where they even distribute food. The HG had carried out detentions everywhere. Polish minorities do not exist here. Slovaks: The Slovaks are not completely politically uniform. The formerly more German-hostile group /Sidor/ is likely to be considered as finished. The Hlinka group is becoming more and more German-friendly in the Sillein area, except for individual areas, aie strongly interspersed by the Czechs. The Silleiner HG is in good hands, the organization works, the HG has taken the DP to the hands that it had carried out the mediation of unemployed Slovaks as workers into the Reich. Although the attitude towards Judaism is not yet as desired, since the old relations, especially in Sillein, where about 3,500 Jews live, cannot yet be considered as fully resolved. It is clear, however, that all Jewish transactions have been arranged and all Czech enterprises have been nationalized. The old-Slavist direction in the HG loses its significance in the Sillein circle, which is also recorded in the other parts of Slovakia. 3./Church: The Catholic clergy is slowly becoming national and German-friendly. The earlier contradictions between the pure Slovakism and the clergy seem to be bridged, as Tuka makes a strong hand feel. Also the frictions -/-