STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 270, sig. 109-4/12

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S -7 domain countries are leased to Czech farmers and workers. The domain enterprise offers all starting points for a successful Germantum policy. German civil servants and workers, as well as German tenants can be set there. The farming farm in Schabritz, which was previously used by the Czech University of Soil Culture in Brno for teaching purposes, can also be used excellently for the training of young German students. Groß Seelowitz ¿ot is the seat of an exhibition of the district team Brno-Land and a district court; also a local group of the N.S.D.A.P. The German school opened in April 1939 already contains 2 classes with 2 teachers and 45 pupils. In K a n it t z the population numbers are the following: 1910 1920 1930 D. Tsch. D. Csch. Tch. 984 1955 159 2776 1102966 Germanism suffered severe losses in Kanitz, too, which will be caught up again. The first measure is the opening of a German one-class school with 15 children. Apart from the German towns of Schöllschitz, Mödritz and Morbes, 28 municipalities are located between the two focal points Groß Seelowitz - Kanitz and Brünn, which would have to fall into the German interest area. These places are now almost out of Czech and have had only a small number of German minorities even before 1918. However, experts claim that this area in the past was predominantly German settlement area and in particular the places Raigern, Popowitz, Hajan and Bratschitz possessed German pluralities. It will be a special task for professional circles to clarify this question in more detail. With regard to practical work, it will be necessary to conclude that the starting points for German-speaking work are still small at first. In German hands, only the goods Hajan 506 ha large (owner Countess Deyn) and Strutz are in this piece of work.