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10 Keichskommissar für die sadetendeutsche Lande. Reichenberg, March 1939. Gymnasiumstrasse 6. AbtI-K/4. Nr. 652/39. Rapporteur: Dr. K.Oberdorffer. 76918 top u Mr Reicheminister für Wissenschaft,Ersiehung und Volksbildung, Berlin W8, EREREEESEEESE Unter den Linden 4. Subject: Proposal for the future supervision and administration of German universities in the Reichsprotektorat Bohemia and Moravia. The insight into the situation of the German higher education institutions in the Böhmiseh-Mührische Protectoret gives me the opportunity to submit to you in the following a proposal which seems appropriate to me to ensure that universities fulfil their tasks without having to anticipate final decisions. I take the following basic considerations as my starting point: it is clear that universities are in a bad state of crisis. Among other questions, there is often a lack of connection with the immediate landscape and population circle, in particular with the leading and building bodies of the party and the state, which acts as an obstacle or a distraction. The direction of the research, which does not go from the given soil and humanity, exerted a sometimes fatal influence here and led to a coordination planning, which saw within itself goal and task. These circumstances led to an