English Translation

Ministerial Councillor Dr. Heckel Prague, 24 July 1942, 21 to present to the House, as you told me the other day, the State Secretary decided that the basic assets of the previous German school associations, i.e. also the school buildings, should be transferred to the German cultural network. Now I have experienced the following in Pilsen: In the course of the exchange of different school buildings, which assigns the best buildings to the Germans, the Czech Trade Academy must free its modern, excellent school building for German schools and be moved to the building of the German Trade Academy. The German Handelsakademie, previously owned by the Schulverein, is now the property of the Kulturverband. Thus, the grotesque condition arises that a Czech school is housed in the building belonging to the German Kulturverband (German Cultural Association). Of course, I did not allow myself to be disturbed by this blemish in the necessary measures which bring about a real improvement in the German school conditions. I also found that the same condition has already been achieved in Pilsen in the course of a smaller, previously carried out exchange action. A cschechisckå girls' school is also located in a cultural association building, while the German school has been housed in the better Czech school building. These examples clearly show that the decision now taken does not meet today's conditions and needs. It finds its justification in the tendencies of the year 1994l to enrich the German school system. From this point of view, it would of course have been unfortunate if German school buildings had been placed in the