STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1899, sig. 109-5/127

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English Translation

In order to ensure the measures, the Oberlandrats, in some cases, require the approval of the Oberlandsrat for the recruitment to the economy. The Oberlandrat of Prague suggests that the officials (also the lower) of the Protectorate administration, who fully master the German language and prove this by an examination, should be granted an allowance.It is easy to justify to the protectorate government danit that the German-speaking official is considerably more usable. What can otherwise only be achieved in a long series of years could soon bring about an allowance in the case of the strong sense of the labour market of the individual Öschechen and today's poor salary.The full knowledge of the German language among the protectorate officials is also necessary in order to be able to gradually push the Czech official language back. However, the Germans in the Protectorate, as well as in the rest of the Reich, do not use the German language only.They must not interfere with the general baseline by the use of the Czech language, which is also based on economic considerations. The struggle for the real loyal attitude of the Czech people to the kingdom and to the new conditions is to be continued and increased tirelessly despite apparent failures. Special emphasis is placed on the growing generation. School lessons will have to be redesigned. German knowledge, German history and German culture have in turn to become the main focus. Sçhule, public libraries and the book market are to be thoroughly cleaned up from any literature hostile to the Reich and to German as well as from the Czech view of history to date. In the interests of the future, it is necessary to take the necessary measures, even if they are not necessary, to remove all unreliable elements from the education system and to retrain the teachers in a different spirit.