STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 612, sig. 109-4/359 (damaged)

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It is even planned to encourage the Czech school management in the sense of increasing military education as an object of instruction in the Czech curricula. Finally, a request for the abolition of the Sokol Univorm ban should be submitted to the Reich authorities. The young Sokol members are to be made available to the ČNs community as a sort of folder force. The attitude of the Czech body education associations to Germanism and the current political order is radically negative and can be traced to a plethora of individual examples. Thus anti-German rallies are at internal events of the individual associations at the daily order. Under the Himweis, that the state conditions would soon change, the members are called to 'persevere and to sabotage acts against Germanism and the rich German authorities. The anti-German whisper propaganda often has its starting point in leading circles of the Czech educational associations and finds a fruitful field of action in the membership. The same applies to anti- German flyer actions and other opposing measures. But also at events which are accessible to the general public, such as theatre evenings or sporting events, the anti-German attitude of the -ibeserverbande and its members openly comes to the occasion. Thus, especially German-Czech Sportverane -ltu n are taken as the occasion of political demonstrations.The sporting superiority of the Czechs is considered to be a superiority in Czechism against Germanism par excellence. Often there were mobs and attacks on German viewers, which in one case led to a temporary ban on all German-Czech performances by the Reich's protector. The behaviour of the Czechs in yesterday's football match, although certain riots have not yet become known, can also be described as characteristic of the general anti-German attitude and attitude.