English Translation

3 As in the rest of the German-speaking world, the question of mixed marriages has also proved to be a burning problem of national politics and has had worrying consequences. Until the establishment of the Protectorate, the Czech element in most cases succeeded in alienating the German spouse from its ethnicity. Fortunately, however, the closures of mixed marriages have recently been noticeably slowed down, and the German influence which has begun over the last two years is also to be thanked for the fact that many mixed marriage was re-organized in German. Since the existence of the German stand offices in the Protectorate, the OLB Olmütz, the city of Olmutz and its German surroundings have been included, until October 194o about 6o mixed marriages, in which the majority of Czech spouses mastered the German language. Un about 2/3 of the mixed marriage partners confessed to German. The circle management of the NSDAP in Olmütz recorded a total of 1,212 existing mixed marriages in OLB Olmutz (October 194o), but the final figure is likely to be even higher. A review of these mixed marriage was made of the following picture: Almost twice as many German men as women have foreign-völkish spouses. This may well be due to the people's negligence and material attitude of the man, while, on the other hand, the German woman does not seem to be so easily inclined by the greater national strength of a mixed marriage. The following examples show, however, how weak the German woman plays in the mixed marriage once received: Of 797 mixed marriages with German men, 563 were familiar with Germanism, 2o to Czechism and 214 remained indifferent. However, from 415 mixed marriage with German women, only 13o to German, 63 to Czechhood and 222 remained indifference. The same applies to the education of children: 416 children of German fathers attended German and 129 Czech schools, while only 183 children of Germany's mothers visited German and 14o Czech schools. The deforestation of the scattered German language, a direct consequence of the child poverty of German families or the emigration of German youth, shows the biological low level of urban scattered Germanism especially in Olomouc and complicates the