STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1986, sig. 109-6/78

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1a. - 2 - schools, etc., depending on the situation of the cases under points 1), 2) or 3) of this decree. The obligation to visit German Sahulen can only be attributed to the confession of ethnicity, not to the nationality of the state. An obligation to visit certain schools must therefore not be linked to the nationality of the State, since the process of ethnicity will lead to the admission to the German schools of children of members of the protectorate to a considerable extent and thus to progress on the basis of my decree of 28.6.194o mentioned above. However, there are no concerns about allowing the children of German nationals without regard to the ethnicity of the parents to attend the German school if the parents so wish and if there is no particular concern in individual cases. In most cases, you are dealing with families who have come into close contact with German culture through long stays in the Ostmark and in the Sudetengau. Children of parents of German Vells are, however, obliged to attend German schools. In addition, the children of parents who are due to the reduction of 2o.4. In 1939 the German national leadership acquired it because this step connected a confession of German ethnicity. At the place of residence of the child not a German school, but if there is the possibility of bringing the child to another place of the German school there by admission to the German home, this path must be taken and, if they do not want to go voluntarily, an estimating influence must be exercised on the parents. First of all, the party must call in here above all. German ethnicity not only understands rights, but also obligations within itself, which parents may have to be reminded of. For example, if a child already attends the Czech middle school (higher school) or a higher class of the Czech civic school and would have to be resettled to a considerably lower level by admission to the German elementary school. The decision in such cases has been taken by the Oberlandrat, as far as the schools are concerned, after hearing others.