STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2362, sig. 109-12/7

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English Translation

Like the houses of the citizens and the castles of the knights in the past, today also the sites of the Wisfenschaft and popular formation are castles of Völkischer Kampf. In the first year of the German administration's existence, the Gauhauptstadt, aware of this commitment, ordered and prepared the raczynski libraries, which are venerable and valuable by reason and scale of the foundation. In a respectable building on Martinstraße, one of the main streets of the city, a exemplary urban library with bright and inviting rooms was founded. Both are broadcasts to bring together the Germans of all the Gaue and groups and to help shape them.