STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1660, sig. 109-4/1415

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National Socialist German Workers' Party Party-Kanzlei Der Leiter der Partei-Kanzei München 33,-den Führerbau Der ReichaprotectorC Führershauptquartier, 22.1.42. Par. S. III D/16 c - Cl. 27. JAN. 42 3215/0/70 - An'. p.461 An den Pesatil Stellv. Herr Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, SS-Obergruppenführer H E Y D R I C H, P r a g IV, Burg. Subject: School protection in the Protectorate. Dear party comrade Heydrich! On the occasion of the meetings which my experts had in mid-September 1941 on the reorganization of the German school relations in the Protectorate with Mr. Secretary of State Frank and the party liaison office, the appointment of the head of the Cruppen for school affairs at the Reichsprotector was urgently required by all the departments involved. It was generally accepted that the previous group leader, a ministerial councillor Hansel, had not been able to cope with the job's factual and technical requirements. He therefore resigned from the position of a group leader in school matters a few months ago. In the view of the services involved, the importance of the German schools in the Protectorate and a number of administrative difficulties,