THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 219, sig. 110-4/65

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It was planned to transfer German families to German children up to six years of age who were capable of being German-speaking, or who had died in a concentration camp. For the older children, in whom the attempt to stay with a German family was no longer to be made, a closed accommodation outside the Protectorate was intended to make the attempt of a collective re-education. With regard to the further treatment of the non-significant children, a decision of the Reichsführers-il was to be taken. The registration of the children has now taken place. However, the planned further measures were not carried out, since a considerable concern of the Czech population should have been accepted. The children are currently brought in by relatives and acquaintances and have settled there. The examination of the children alone would have already been noticed and had shown effects which had to be avoided in the present situation in the Protectorate - especially in the Hindliek on the maintenance of the peace of labour as a prerequisite for an unrestricted war production. The decision on their further treatment must be postponed to a later date. Pünfundsecheig children of Tachechen, who were sentenced under the law, are housed once closed - forty-six of them in the Yrnternierungslager in Swatoborschitz and nineteen in a children's home in Prague-Reuth. These children come mainly from parents from the former villages of Liditz and Lezaky, whose inhabitants are associated with the measures taken after the assassination of the