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

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10.sheet on the report of the Primator Deputy for the period from 1/8 to 30/9.1941. THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MAIN STATE PRAG. On the other hand, the total number of pupils is 70.8l6, which is an increase of 149 children compared to the previous year. These figures give decisively tokens and do not confirm those expectations that a strong migration to the German schools will occur on the Czech side. In the period under review, contrary to expectations, the question of urban cultural prizes was recently disputed by an order from the Department of Cultural Policy to the Reich Protector. This order stated that the Peter Parler Prize requested by the German side should not be advertised so that the Czechs are not able to make a corresponding appeal for equivalence. In an entry to Mr Oberlandrat, I pointed out the reasons which determine me, however, to ask for the new permission for the conversion of the 8 cultural prizes, which are in themselves existing and now half secured for Germans, into one German and one Czech. In this context, the fundamental question raised by Mr Reichsprotector was also whether the city could conduct an active cultural policy at all. So far, no clarification has been made. In the last two months, the defense measures against the propaganda actions of Czech emigration took place in a larger framework. In general terms, it can be said that these very last two months have provided ample information about the attitude of the Czech people. Above all, reference should be made to the recent newspaper boycott, which enabled us Germans to grasp and judge the Czech referendum in a static way; a result that would not otherwise have been easy to achieve in this exactness. Since the newspaper boycott by the Czechs, as far as it can be judged from Prague, was held almost completely,