English Translation

70 - 3 - whether thousands and thousands of Czech boys and girls will attend their Czech schools and be able to train themselves in peace for their future profession or not. You should not be martyrs, you should be good and conscientious students. The organs of the Reich, as has often been the case in similar cases, for a long time followed closely the behaviour of such students and knew it for a very long time. Only these days, however, did they cease to intervene. The Reichsprotektor has informed me these days that the patience of the German authorities is now exhausted and the punitive closing of all Czech middle and higher technical schools in Bohemia and Moravia is prepared. Make the seriousness of this moment quite clear to you; think about what the loss of all secondary schools and higher secondary schools would mean for our people today. You certainly did not consider this success of your "heroic deeds". I have obtained a final probation period for you; I have stood up for you and vouched for you.It is now up to you not to disappoint me and act accordingly.If, in the future, the least anti-rich activity should be observed at the Czech middle and high schools, the reading of all our middle and higher schools is unchangeable. And now I speak to each and every one of you, to the teachers, students and students you stand here before me and at the same time to be able to :