STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1672, sig. 109-4/1427

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46 fuam En t w u rf Mr Reichsprotektor Reichsminister Freiherr von Neurath, 2re. lan Lo. g. ogor be dlern /rovyloy 204 d Prag. berlegeicloeer. In connection with the developments in the East, which also make a planned scientific research and investigation of the problems there a political need, I am concerned with an explanation of the matter of the "Prague East Institute". I am referring here to our meeting at the time and my subsequent letter of 7 June l940. Inspired and fertilized by German research, the peoples of the Ogten and the South-East in the 1 9th century turned to their past and began to research themselves. In particular, the Slavic world has tried to free itself from the supremacy of Germanism by all force and to establish its own research centres. The founding of two institutes in Vienna and Prague, which I have planned as the branch offices of the High School, means the renunciation of those efforts culminating in the post-World War II period, and the Xidermaking of kax condition, which also guarantees spiritual supremacy to the people who have organized the Eurasian space spiritually. The distinction between the Institute in Vienna and that in Prague is made in such a way that the Vienna Institute, according to the tradition there, is primarily concerned with the study of the southeast with the inclusion of the Near East, while Prague is assigned the task of the former suburb of Pan-Slavism, when the