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81 Prague, on 3 April 1942. THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAIN CITY PRAG. Report of the activities of the primator deputy Prof. Dr. Pfitzner for the period from l./II. to 3l./III.1942. The most prominent event during the DNA reporting period may be described as the language regulation for the Prague city administration carried out by the decree of the Reich Protector of 22 February. After that, the German language is raised to the exclusive official language of internal and external traffic. In this one sentence, the importance of this decision is not easily overestimated. Prague knows, knows, that during its millennial age A there are only a few moments that can compare in importance with this event. The fact that, after the exclusive predominance of the German language during the 12th to 14th centuries, At the beginning of the Hussite riots in the 19th century, the German language was banished from the Prague city administration, always signifying a blatant setback in the German cause. For this purpose, the Renewed Land Order, with its proclamation of the equality of German and Czech language in public life in history, indicated the validity of Germanism in the Sudeten region. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that the Czech language movement broke out. the Czech language after 1918 was raised to the sole official language in Prague. If the German language now occupies this place, then it is like an event which, in its significance, transcends the hundreds of years. We were therefore fully aware of this fact when, at the behest of the decree of the Reichsprotektor, we went to work out guidelines for the transition period. If certain exceptions are to be established, then it must not be doubtful at any moment that there is a firm will to carry out the fundamental decision completely. The primator, to whom I gave the draft for the