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

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23 -4- case remained. She justified her request, among other things, by the fact that the confessional private school takes all children back to their denominational affiliation, so that it is no longer a purely denominational school in the actual sense of the word. She could also point out that the students had always been obliged to learn German. In fact, this school also has positive achievements in this sense, because the Czech girls in Austerlitz, who can speak German, owe this only to the visit of this denominational school.Also many adult Czechs and students of other schools are said to have come to the lPoor School Sisters" and have standardized tutoring in German (aside from the German director, there are still a few other German sisters employed). The Germans in Austerlitz are well aware of the positive side of this confessional school and also represent its preservation, pointing out that this school is well accommodated and must be preserved for a German school to be set up in Außferlitz.Ved ser is pointed out to the teaching of German language skills to the sche- cherch pupils as well as to private learners. In addition, the German head of government is obviously enjoying a certain popularity, since she appears as a conscious German. Thus it is said, that the pupils of the Bürgerschule were once rejected by the pupils. She had threatened to recklessly remove those who did not comply with her order from school. When she tried to fulfill her threat, the students gave in. In more open-minded German circles of Austerlitz it is also pointed out that the dissolution of the confessional school under German leadership on the opposite side would immediately be interpreted as an act of the anti-Churchness of National Socialism against the Reich, all the more so as it should be borne in mind that precisely the -5