STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1212, sig. 109-4/96

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5a -2 - and Moravia, but with the exception of the integrated eastern territories and the General Government. (2) The scheme is intended to provide the possibility of regulating marriages between German nationals and members of the Protectorate of the Memories and Moravia according to national policy aspects. In the meantime, the competent administrative authorities have, prior to their decision in the Reichsgebiet outside the Protectorate, ordered the Reich Minister of the Interior to seek the instruction of the Reich Protector in the Protectorates. (3) The administrative authority appointed to confirm the marriage certificates shall provide the decision by means of surveys and with appropriate documents which enable an assessment according to racial, hereditary, character, political, national and social aspects: a) Racial suitability of the two fiancées. Marriages in which a part is racially inferior will not be allowed Racially inferior is of a Jewish, Gypsy, Negeric or other foreigner's blood attack. Furthermore, especially the genealogical conditions, VM in particular the measure of German blood attack must be presented in detail. It should be borne in mind that in some parts of the present-day Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, an especially strong disparity in the hitherto German population has occurred since the first third of the last century.