English Translation

Enhance and alarm clock of national conscience. It is estimated that at the beginning of 1941 of 300,000 interlectual Czechs 170,000 were brought for every right to earn their Leven in the exercise of their respective profession. In November 1939 all universities and institutions of similar character in Czechoslovakia were closed for the period of three years; after that period Deputy Protector FRaNK their permanent closure. Vie Tarte of the by their contribution to the cure of certain diseases, were brought world famous institution to Germany. Manuscripts of the cschechoslovant sen and their tuelle were burned, all cultural associations added value interlectuals and art objects from the collection of the HRaDSchtüraehd ander rpiche, Ge- were sent to Germany, Hitler himself res -en ste sich u. -iste Auswahl. so famous The German persecution of the students of Prague is still significant. November 1939 - a day of incredible barbarism that all free countries remember - 3,000 students were torn out of their homes; 150 were dead, many were more fearfully beaten and 1,000 were dragged into the concentration camp Oranienburg, from which many returned physically and mentally destroyed. With these cruel methods, the Nazis tried to suppress the Czechoslovak people of Zrá, that it would not be tempted to rise up against the lot of an Xtik slave, that they had thought of him. Many thousands of Czechoslovak students had to give up their studies by means of the German forced measures, they were prevented from taking a job and so a large part of them were simply sent to Germany for Zvang work. During 1940, the third part of the country's schools was closed and the buildings were confiscated for various uses. The Czechoslovak professors, who were supporters of MASARYKS, the founder of the Repablik, were selected and forced on them a particularly strict way of life, some of them sent to concentration camps. The externally designed curricula were changed and restricted, books and -vided, and the children were not to be mentioned, or only in a disdainful sense. Lie school libraries were "cleaned" and the teachers were made personally responsible for teaching their pupils in the sense of Hitler. MORAvEc, the Quisling Minister of Lidungs, declared in July 1942 that after the war one would have had enough with one quarter of the educated Czech class! 131, mainly Czech writers, incl. Karel CAPEK, of course, are forbidden in the Protectorate and during the year 194l were confiscated in the various Czechoslovak publishing houses three million books, which were once stamped and processed into new paper. Indeed, even the popular songs were banned by the Nazis! Radio, theatre and cinema are under German control and they are supposed to make Nazi propaganda. The humiliation of the Czechoslovak culture has even advanced to such an extent that the Nazis desecrated the statue of President MASARYK, from which the inscriptions were scraped out and replaced by the word "criminals". Since the occupation of the historical HRADScHIN castle in Prague by Hitler, the contemptible reduction of "Czech Republic" was applied to the whole Czechoslovak people. The Czechoslowak Republic was famous by its press. In the days before the Munich Pact, the German and Hungarian minorities were able to publish their own documents with very small restrictions. More than half of the 2,800 newspapers and periodicals that existed in Czechoslovakia stopped their activities in the year of Nazi occupation.