GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 644, sig. 110-4492

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27 - 3 - a tighter management of the courses was necessary. For this reason, German professors were appointed as the head of kisses, who acted as active collaborators for the topic "Böhmen und Das Reich", but also had to pay attention to the fact that and how the lecturers expressed their innate opinion on the topic through the nature of their lecture.These courses were conducted exclusively in German. All these measures proved to be very good, so that the result of the summer courses was a much better one. The reports of the German course leaders agree on the active cooperation, care and diligence of the Czech professors. These were therefore able to teach history in the sense of the Reich's idea, we also in general without ideal momentum and with less internal sympathy. The training also gave a clear picture of the German knowledge of the Czech history teachers. About a quarter of them will be able to teach history in a language that is perfect, about half of them have a knowledge of German and will also teach German at further training courses in Geschich. The rest of the quarter is only deficient in the German language and, according to Wiede, only in the lower classes, the following conclusions emerge: 1./ The Czech, history teachers have made the new history their own: at least externally to the extent that they are able to give the history lessons almost complete in the sense of the R idea by the new textbooks 2./ The history lessons can therefore be resumed after the new books have been published. Since there are enough linguistically qualified teachers available, he will be given German in the upper classes, in the lower Czech. 3./ Both in Rankenheim and in the courses in Bohemia and Moravia, the historians mentioned in the annex were noticed by inappropriate remarks, passive behaviour or great lack of interest in retraining. These teachers must be agreed on the good will to educate the Czech youth in the sense of the Reich. Because by reducing the high number of pupils at the Czech secondary schools many professors