THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1657, sig. 109-4/1412

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22 - 18 - the number of pupils who were released was simply not able to take up, which in turn gave rise to a longer loan at the school. As a result of this, the strong preference between the German and Czech school children is difficult to say; but it is likely that the development in Moravia and Silesia after the war contributed greatly to this. Before the war, these two countries, where the national consciousness was not strong så and mixed marriages between Germans and Czechs and Slovaks were much more common than in Bohemia, many children of foreign ethnicity went to German schools.However, the situation changed completely due to the course of the war. It can be seen that the fluctuation of the school system is very difficult to explain, but the school book publisher in particular has to deal with these figures, which determine his sales market.