English Translation

23 Gentlemen directors, my students! I have gathered you here in this very extraordinary way, because the matter at stake is of such an extraordinary national nature that it does not take any respite. I want to keep an eye on it with you and clarify it to its full extent and in all its consequences. I feel obliged to you, because as Minister of Education, I am in the first row responsible for the fate of the Czech school system. In the last few weeks, as has been established by school and political authorities, there have been more and more occurrences in your ranks, which could be dismissed in detail and at normal times simply as laurels, but which - if they are continued - could become a great danger to the Czech people and their culture, you know that the right of standing was imposed by the Reichsprotektor on some districts of Bohemia and Moravia. The reasons for this, as it was known by newspapers, were that some hotheads and a number of people seduced by foreign agitation were preparing a resistance movement against the Empire and were trying to disrupt the work of the Protectorate for the Empire through sabotage. In addition, there was another group that damaged the diet of our people by food deportations and smuggling. No state in the world and this cannot even be offered in times of peace C1800