GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 757, sig. 110-5/47

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- 9 - 44 group seems to me to be a comradeship group of essentially Nordic kind and attitude but in fact more through a good human selection - I have also explained this in a special study from anthro- pological points of view to find their probation (whereby at every occasion the strong personal attachment to Obersturmbannführer Nagler stood impressively in front of my eyes), as being held together by programmatic guidelines. These latter are probably present, but not convincing enough to work alone. With the demand repeatedly heard in the Bojnice camp, one does not want to rest, until the last Magyare, the last Czech, the final Jew, has left the country, only a narrow nationalism, with the smallness of the state system even narrowly acting, which noeh has the visional error to be not consistent, otherwise the Germans in the people, who are also perceived as frend, would not have to be silently excluded from casting out. It is certain that wise and prudent H.G. leaders would answer this question, that we need to refer to the Reich and affirm it, because otherwise we could not keep ourselves at all as a state. This is, in fact, the consecration of the need for leadership from the outside; and it in turn leads to the problem of Slovakia's peculiarity, which cannot be denied socially and economically. It is no coincidence that, in the words of the detainees of both nationalities, the vision of the old Austro-Hungarians has always been a tempting one, as a state in which everyone had actually been better off, with the wide field for everyone who is able to do so, oh national prejudices or privileges; but as far as they were given, with a hundred - 10 -