STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 179, sig. 109-2/81

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92 The Imperial Protector in Föhmen and Moravia Prague, 2 July 1940 Sy No. Z 372/40 To Divisions I and II all groups Department for the Land Moravia Upper Land Councils in Bohemia Upper Land Boards in Moravia (in the way of the Office for the Country Moravia, the Office of the Reich Protector, the office of the Secretary of State 2× the office for the Under-Secretary of State, the Wehrmacht authorised representative at the Reichsprotektor L2=/14.40. in Bohemia and Moravia Subject: Activities of officials in the organizations of the party in the Protectorate of Bohemia and the Moravian Republic From the occasion given, you can obtain a copy of an order of the deputy of the leader of 3.3. 1936. This order of deputy of a leader is of particular importance precisely on the battlefield of the protectorate. On the one hand, the thin upper layer of Germanism in the Protectorate is not in a position to fulfil its tasks in the long term, if not everyone cooperates, on the other hand the joint work between so-called Volksdeutschen and so- called Altreichsdeutschen in the party not only helps to compensate for present-day contradictions, but even to transform them into a warm camaraderie. I therefore expect all the civil servants and representatives of the German Reich authorities to live, as far as possible, part of the