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bb -5 * transcript. note stb eesh _***====== RSEEOLUNSRSTOLOU TE FTOU MELeD SLMUADC Subject: Meeting in the district management of Budweis on 11.11.1944. debiew neo nednod ye0 52 Following a prior telephone request, the chief officer and representative for the evacuation Dr. Dr.Awender briefly reported on the essentials of the meetings held in Prague on 1.11.194 with various departments and on the discussions held in Vienna on 3 and 4 November 1944 under the chairmanship of Mr. Adolf Kaufmann, the head of the NSDAP district of Budweis. Chair of the Head of Office Heller of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle Ber-lin and the Volksgruppenführer. It was emphasized that Budweis is designated as the seat of the ethnic group leadership and that the work is to be expanded here. The extent to which it is possible to transfer all Germans from the Serbian Banat to the Protectorate depends partly on the transport relations. The leaders of the ethnic group leadership will continue to work on a voluntary basis after their commitment to practical professional work, as the tasks of the leadership of the populace will have a much smaller scope here than in the Banat itself.Accordingly, only a part of the leaders of Budweis and the surrounding area will occupy quarters and work professionally. For the purpose of involving the working people of the Banat, the representative of the ethnic group should be consulted, who can better assess the professional capacity of individual people in order to ensure the greatest possible success. Even when issuing subscriptions and private quarters, action should only be taken after hearing the representative of the ethnic group leadership in order to prevent abuse. The transfer of the people from the Banat to practical work and their admission to private quarters is regarded as particularly important and urgent in order to prevent the great psychological conditions of camp life in mass quarters as far as possible. For the purposes of the transfer of people from CE881 ./.