STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1075, sig. 109-4/829

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Office of the State Secretary belten Reichspeotektor in Bühmen und mähren. Eing.: 22.JULI 1941 Tgb. Ne. The "Society for Music Education in Prague" was founded by B e n e š for the emigrant Leo K e s t e n b e rg. In the B u r g it was granted l6 official rooms. It was publicly subvented by the bank house P e t s c h e k, but received in reality from the private casket of the President of the State and through funds from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This "Society for Music Education in Prague" is the author of the book: Vl. Helfert - E. Steinhard, Die Musik in der Czechoslovakischen Republik. It is not a scientific work, but a propaganda publication of the worst kind. lip S.12-7/4 zr St.