STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2501, sig. 109-12/148

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11. 67 Relations between the old homeland and the new settlements do not exist for the time being; only recently, some German Galicians have turned to the communities from which their fathers have immigrated to establish a correspondence with relatives.This initiative shows how strongly the German- and home-feeling of our compatriots is pronounced. This aim could be supported if possible.It might also be possible to effectively counteract degeneration in this way by marrying the Glicish Egerländer, for which there are signs here and there. And a second would perhaps be the result.A support activity that would have to be particularly relevant to the school system The Protestant Sohulen, who are supported by the rich, have secured the D Germanism of Protestant villages Why should this not also happen in the Catholic-German congregations by promoting them from their mother's à ̈ande.They alone are too weak.If egerländer associations are protecting threatened German feumm places at the language border, shouldn't it be the best villages of their most native relatives?. 18aSC