STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1899, sig. 109-5/127 Page 25 · 25 of 36
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1899, sig. 109-5/127
English Translation
22 A skillful propaganda against the enemy propaganda, the maintenance of the peace and order in the country, the guarantee of bearable living conditions within the framework of the war possibilities and also the uninhibited activism of the spiritual dynamics of the German 80,000.000.-Volkes will be suitable helpers, however, in addition, measures have to be taken already today n, resp. We need to educate and shape the Czech people sdon today in such a way that the active assimilation, which began after the war, can have an uninhibited effect. Prerequisite for any repopulation, every re-acceptance of German cultural heritage is the knowledge of the German language,The Tshceche, who understands the German tongue, is more exposed to every attack of German propaganda, every German influence on all areas of life el, than the Czech national, who does not speak his native language and thus can only be influenced in it, The use of German language in the Bohemian Moravian region is therefore to be promoted by all means. Today, for example, even Czechs feel little more than particularly foreign and disturbing in the last year's hot-blooded double-lingualism of public signage. Therefore, the bilinguality of the entire public life is to be continued. Increased number of hours of German lessons in all schools, with a review of the German language skills of the instructors, is intended to enable the young generation to learn the German, and language tests to force the adults to learn German.The prerequisite for any recruitment and promotion in the services of the autonomous administration in the broadest sense, in the case of public bodies, and indeed in the host. In the case of small and medium-sized enterprises, the knowledge of the German language as the language of the Central European