STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1730, sig. 109-4/1485 (damaged)

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40a. - 2 - German school in the neighbouring Reichsgebiet, may not go to a Czech school of the Protectorate. After a further decree, children whose parents or legal guardians have their permanent residence in the rest of the Reich, may no longer visit the Czech schools of the protectorate. Similarly, new admissions of pupils who are no longer subject to compulsory education from the rest of the Reich are prohibited in Czech middle schools, teacher training institutions and all kinds of technical schools, with the exception of vocational schools. However, if such children no longer subject to compulsory schooling had already visited one of the mentioned schools in the Protectorate in the 1942/43 school year, they may remain in that school as long as they were granted a border crossing certificate (Durehlassschein) issued by the district police authority responsible for the pupil's residence. A total of 3123 Czech teachers of all types of schools were made available for war operations from Bohemia and Moravia. However, in order to ensure the necessary number of teachers at the agricultural vocational schools, it was determined that the war effort of teachers working in such schools would have to be seen. In the German school system, the Yerstärkten claims of the Wehrmacht on the establishment of German teachers who are still in service in the armed forces have not been without prejudice to the difficulties. A total of 116 German apprenticeships for the Wehrmacht were exempted during the quarter-year, 62 of which were in the primary and primary schools, 25 in the higher schools and in the teacher training institutions and 29 in the vocational schools. This has led to the closure of some of the German elementary schools, the merging of classes, the increase in teaching obligations and the introduction of war timetables. Further reductions in the teaching obligation would further reduce the already strongly endangered quality of the German school system, such a reduction would not be acceptable even with regard to the Czech school system still working excellently. The establishment of new German schools in 17473 is not to be considered under the prevailing conditions. b) Volks- und Hauptschulen. Deutsche Schulen., In implementation of the Government Decree of 6 April 1943 No. 97/43