STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1075, sig. 109-4/829 Page 28 · 28 of 30
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1075, sig. 109-4/829
English Translation
22 The "Society for Music Education in Prague" was founded by Dr. B e n e š for the emigrant Leo K e s t e n - b e r g. In the B u r g it was granted l6 officials. Publicly it was subverted by the bank house P e t s c h e k, but in reality it was obtained from the private casket of the President of the State and from funds from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Legational Councillor Ritter von Halem, then cultural officer of the German Embassy in Prague, has officially carried out all the surveys on the Society for Music Education in Prague. The reports are succumbed to the German Foreign Office. This "_Gesellschaft für Musikerziehung_in Prag_" draws as the editor of her first publication 018SS VI. Helfert - E. Steinhard, Die Musik in der Czechoslovakischen Republik. The book is not a scientific work, but a propaganda publication of the worst kind. The Jew_Dr._Brich S_t_e i_n_h a_r d_ writes the chapter "On German Msik in the Czechoslovak Republic " / page 151 - 190 ./ / Marking/ s l o w a k i s c h still with y , although among Czech scholars and writers for German texts the "w " is already established! /