STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050

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9.Blat to the activity report from 1/9. to 31/10.1942. THE PRIMATOR-STELLVERTRETRETER dEaMeaiwel netngol DER MAINSTADT PRAG. Ea ba doelredo&melle is still by no means particularly serious, especially if one considers that, of all things, the Spanish literature reaches almost the German share and the small Nordic countries make up approximately the anoid half of the German. Since the Czech man is most likely to be unguarded in these book loans and therefore leaves his innermost desires open, this figure also becomes even more important for the assessment of the German-Czech relationship. It is worth noting that the Czechs are now starting to build their own peE bookshops.As the first example, a bookshop was set up in the Phillips factory in Tiefenbach as a branch of the Czech city library and equipped with l516 —resn volumes. The head of the Czech City Library 9M stated that a new "workers' policy" is to be pursued for Prague, as for the Protectorate, by the libraries C10. The number of workers' readers is, as is assured, constantly increasing. From the German side it will have to be seriously considered whether this kind of educational mediation is to be regarded as desirable among Czech workers. - The Czech city office, however, also has other plans, which from the German point of view - are worth attention. Thus a theatre and F film department in the central library is to open on l./1l.l942. For the next year, the management of the Czech City Library is planning the opening of L0 a book loan in the open air, e.g. in the tree garden and in the park goT facilities on Karlsplatz, plans that also require German critical lighting. All these companies are based on an intention to raise national awareness and keep awake about the Czech book in the Czech people. The planned lecture series of the Czech Library on the topic "Book of the B Week", which is to be organized jointly with the Institute for National Education, points in the same direction.- From the activities of the Hauptamt für Kirchen- und Friedhofsangegenheiten soli are merely emphasized that the total number of registered bronze bells was 538 and that 291 of them were delivered in the weight of lol 792 kg.