Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 161, sig. 110-4/6

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06 3. Out-of-school education. In addition to school education, the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Folketing took special measures in close agreement with the permanent training officers of the party and professional associations. The Reichsärztekammer was entrusted with the care, further training and up-and-coming training for the employees of the South Tyrolean medical professions (doctors, veterinarians, NSV sisters, Red Cross sisters, midwives), whereby the individual professional organizations are largely used. Due to the agreements with the Reichstraining manager of the main training office of the NSDAP. A sufficient number of young people will also be guaranteed for the construction and work of the party and its divisions in the new settlement area. About 1 00o members of the South Tyrolean ethnic group were transferred to the religious castles of the NSDAP during the last months. in Sonthofen and Krössinsee and on the training castle in Hohenwerfen trained and prepared for their coming tasks. 4. Church location in South Tyrol. The ecclesiastical care of the folk Germans from South Tyrol was subordinated to the archdiocese in Trento, whose head is a Jtaliener, especially the diocese of Brixen and its prince-bishop Dr. Geißler, a born German. By 1926, the diocese of Brixen also included the present-day Northern Tyrol. In 1926, due to papal decisions, the greater part of the diocese was separated from the Diocese of Brissan and erected under church law as an apostolic administration of Jnnsbruck-Feldkirch. To that part of the clergy, who expressed the wish to be surrounded with the ethnic group, the possibilities are kept open. The resulting questions of church and property law are, for example, the subject of negotiations. The cultural, school= and church-political work in the new eastern regions While the resettlement of the South Tyrolean ethnic group initially limits itself primarily to ensuring that the relocation work is as smooth as possible, the work for the eastern regions is already a wider and more comprehensive one. In addition to the steering and involvement of the German people, besides the questions of their economic security, their professional and school further training, the forecasts for the final design of the frozen eastern regions are to be created here. Clarification One of the first tasks in the new eastern regions is to create generally applicable directives of the Bolks= which enable a clear divorce to be made between what is "German", between what the forecasting carries in itself, over time, to become a valuable and useful part of the German people, and what is Polish or German. The following guidelines came into being in cooperation with the deputy of the leader and, in particular, with the head of the security police and the SD: