STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 458, sig. 109-4/203

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S - 3 - in the minority. In the abject aberrations all levels of hatred are to be found, whereby the term "popular treacherous" and "crowned by the Germans" prevail. Various Czechs expressed that the Ministry of Education was the most important department of the government from the point of view of Czech self-assertion, and that the Germans had only used Moravec so that it would act from the inside and provide the pretext that the Czechs themselves would introduce National Socialist educational principles, etc. It is often to be heard from Czechs that the establishment of Moravec is worse than if a German had been made Minister of Education and Head of the Office of People's Enlightenment. The establishment of Moravec will lead to the complete demise of Czech schooling and Czech culture. A soldier will pass over. 2.) The re-education of the government. As is currently the case in the planning and at my last presence in the headquarters telefonically approved by the leader, the re-formation of the protectorate government took place on 19.1.42. The internal connections, considerations and partly. Difficulties may I briefly report below: Originally, the intention had been to arrange only the ministries in an administratively organic way, thereby establishing a certain organizational relationship with the Reich and then to carry out the reorganization downwards with the greatest possible involvement of German officials as section heads; the three ministries of commerce, social affairs and the Ministry of Public Works were to be headed by the W-Oberführer Min.Dir. Dr. Bertsch - 'who at the same time heads the Department of Economics in the Office of the Reich Protector - are grouped into a "Ministry of Economics and Labour". 8ed00