STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1719, sig. 109-4/1474

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22 -3 to strengthen the success of her educational work in every respect, shows an incident from Horaschdowitz (P. Bezirk Strakonitz).In a language examination a nun was asked if she knew what the German anthem heard. She could explain this correctly. Then asked about the text of the Horst Wessel song, she replied whether she could not sing the song rather than say it. Another nun, who was asked why Dr. Goebbels, in his work as director of the NSDAP for Groß-Berlin, had particularly earned himself, would also give a completely clear and accurate information about this. The knowledge of l2 nuns who teach in Horaschdowitz in elementary and secondary schools was very good; the Czech teachers of secular schools, on the other hand, fell in the same German exam on similar questions and they could not answer almost as well, if at all. Characteristic of the attitude to the denominational schools is the example Austerlitz (Polish District Wischau). In Austerlitz, in addition to the Czech elementary and civic school, the primary and agricultural school, there is a confessional two-class elementary school with about 5o pupils and a four-class civic school with approximately 2oo to 2so pupils of the "Poor School Sisters", whose mother-school is located in Munich.Until recently, this confessional association also maintained a householding school, which was left in between. Especially the Bürgerschule er- is pleased with the denominationally strongly bound residents of Austerlitz and the surrounding area great popularity The director of this school is a German from Groß Kunendorf (former Austrian Silesia), who is regarded as conscious Germans; the superior of the entire branch comes from Troppau and seems to listen to the Völkischen intermediate layer. When the head of the confessional school learned of the threat of dissolution, she approached individual Germans in Austerlitz with the request to assert her influence in that the dissolution of the school on each -4