STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 122, sig. 109-2/23 Page 14 · 14 of 52
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 122, sig. 109-2/23
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IV - 12 - the storage possibilities it contains for the Czechs, it overestimates the power of the Gaue and the effect of an administrative reform, it ignores the nature of the Czech problem. It is a political problem of high rank and as such not Gau- but Reichssachd. 3, It combines with its ineffectiveness, but also an extremely serious lack: an external political question. Its realization would be equivalent to a division of the Czech people and its disappearance as well as a purely nominal political factor. That would not bring the hoped-for effects we have shown under 2. On the other hand, it would certainly have a negative, external political effect.The latent anti-German propaganda would take up this Czech division with absolute certainty and stamp it as an analogy to the Polish Bielhar division. Anyone who knows the political history of fMand 'm Tafram has done such outstanding services as this propaganist slogan, in our case the effect would be all the more devastating than the responsibility would fall on us alone, not on three states (Prussia, Austria, Russia). E Own opinion 5 e CabChib a) Aud disen Introductions to the most part our positive position. We place two points of concern at Hs Tepito; 13 -